On February 5, The New York Times reported on the supposed death knells of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, explaining that "on Tuesday, Congress quietly closed the door to the program altogether when it cleared a spending package that authorized no new visas for it."
Fortunately for the more than 125,000 Afghan SIV applicants still awaiting various stages of processing as of the last State Department's April 2025 quarterly report, the situation is not necessarily so dire.
