The Washington Post reported that around 45,000 Afghans are still waiting to be relocated to another country more than two months after they left Afghanistan.
The "governor" of the "village" at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico is an Air Force colonel.
The village at Holloman is one of eight areas on US bases set up to house Afghans waiting to be relocated to the country. According to the White House's National Security Council, 73,000 Afghans have been flown to the US.
More than 4,000 are still housed at Holloman, the Post reported.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, has about 26,000 applications from Afghans waiting to be reviewed.
The increase in applications this year would most likely mean delays, but she did not say how long.
The Post reported that those on humanitarian parole don't have an immediate path to permanent residency and don't have access to some benefits offered to refugees.
The Afghan Adjustment Act would allow people who have been resettling in the US to apply for a green card after a year. Human Rights First has urged Congress to pass the bill.
This is an important step towards helping at-risk Afghans arriving in the United States with nothing after the fall of the elected government of Afghanistan. The Human Rights First Senior Director of Government Affairs said in a press release that it was heartening to see Congress recognize that Afghans starting to build lives here in the United States should be provided with the welcome and integration services and benefits they need.
