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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Santana

20 years after invasion, Iraqis still waiting to come to US

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Ammar Rashed has a stack of letters from U.S. troops attesting to his work during some of the most dangerous days of the Iraq War. But six years after he applied to immigrate to the United States under a program for interpreters who helped America, he is still waiting.

“You don’t have to keep me and my family suffering for, for years waiting,” said Rashed during a Skype interview from Jordan, where he lives. “It’s really frustrating.”

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