0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
afghanistan, about 4,500 evacuated so far and 500, they have made contact with, that leaves about 1,000 or so they are still trying to find. the big question, of course, is along these categories of people who are trying to leave, there are in the priority list american citizens, passport holders. you heard that from the secretary of state there. after that there are the local staff that people who have been working with them, but there are many, many tens of thousands more, people who are applying for what is called p-1 or p-2, priority 1 or 2 protection status and many more without protection status. not in the pipeline but are considered at risk because of their work tesh airlie with the u.s. government. the u.s. thought the taliban won t come back into power and now they have no way out and with a few days left before the u.s. withdrawal i think it s fair to said vast majority of them will be left behind.
or in the u.s.? i don t know. we ll have to take that question and get back to you. thank you, john, thank you, general. the people thank you very much for your hard job and good job. afghan people, they are happy that some of them that they are not eligible for siv see a, p-1, p-2, but still they have a serious problem and they are not in the kabul. they are hiding. they move from one place to the other place. and they contact with me like more than contacted with me a day and say what can i do. and is there any plan from the state department or from the pentagon because they are target of the taliban, but taliban, yes, the spokesperson said why