the immigration process. i m grateful for the support of the community surrounding each of our bases and for the volunteers and others who are aiding in all of the efforts. together, we re honoring our commitment to our afghan partners families. i look forward to taking your questions. thank you. thank you, general. start with you. hi, general. can you tell us how many evacuees have gone through dulles? the governor said today the numbers are 14,000. we were told earlier there was about 7,000 siv. can you square those numbers for us? and then i have a follow up. i don t have a specific number for you. state department would be best to answer that. i can tell what you has come to us and that s 6,578 at four separate locations. i will tell you what we re seeing is of those that do
sivs, those are principle applicants, siv principle applicants as well as their families members. they can bring as many people to safety as quickly as possible. so in many cases, we are going to be in a better position to provide you fidelity on numbers in the coming days and the coming weeks. it s on as many planes as we k the counting we ll be able to do in more detail in the coming days. sivs, we reached out to thousands upon thousands. when it comes lawful permanent
to these bases are siv holders or applicants? or are you also housing people who apply for refugee status? just trying to understand the breakdown who have is on these bases and then secondly, there are frorts dulles that some of those commercial flights that have come in had to keep people on the tarmac for ten hours while screeners come onboard. is anything being done to rectify that? is that a dhs issue? are you aware of that issue at dulles? i don t have the siv noub in front of me. what i would tell you is the siv numbers have not been in excess of 50%. i don t have the detall right now. with regards to the problems you re describing at dulles, i m aware that longer waits that you describe. we work very hard over the last
refuge which provides he will jubl afghan nationals and their immediate families with support of the u.s. government the opportunity to relocate to the united states. the department of state subsequently activated the afghanistan coordination task force and requested the department of defense provide temporary support for up to 3,500 afghan special immigrant applicants. on august 15th, the department of state requested and the secretary of defense approved additional support for afghan special immigrant visa applicants and other vulnerable afghans. in response to this request, the u.s. northern command we re providing temporary housing, medical screening, transportation, and other services for both afghan special immigrant visa applicants and at risk afghans. u.s. northern command has been tasked to build capacities to support up to 50,000 afghans to do that, the department of defense under u.s. northern command establishes task forces at for the lee in virginia, ft.
bliss in texas, ft. mccoy in texas and mcguire dix in new jersey. on august 25th, the secretary of defense authorized three additional military installations to provide support inside the united states for afghan special immigrant visa applicants, families and other at risk individuals. this includes marine corps base quantico and ft. picket in virginia and the air force base in new mexico. as to have day, ft. picket has 1,000 afghans and working with the other two installations to finalize the final respective capacity. while not a task force, u.s. northern command is supporting operation allies refuge with services and additional forces including assisting with managing the flow of evacuees aat dulles airport and the philadelphia international airport in pennsylvania. that airport is opening up today. additional sites are possible. here s the snapshot real quickly of some of the numbers that