there had not been a single siv applicant interview in kabul going back to march of 2020. the program was basically in a stall. within two weeks of taking office we restarted the siv reprocess in kabul. february 4th one of the first executive orders issued by president biden directed us to immediately review the siv program to review causes of delay and process applications more quickly. this spring i directed significant additional resources to the program expanding the team of people in washington processing applications from 10 to 50, doubling the number of siv adjudicateors in our embassy in kabul. as many embassy personnel began to return under order of departure, we sent more consular officers to kabul to process siv applications. as a result of these and other steps, including working with