0 these are known passport holders. okay. but have have lprs also been contacted? yes. and what about siv applicants, people who are we re in contact will we get i m sorry. i don t expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began there s been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and there s been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you were dealt by the previous to deal with the taliban in terms of the siv program in terms of the broader refugee program. you guys have been in office for eight months. it s been five months since the president s decision was made. is there anything about the shortcomings have about been so readily identified by all sorts of people that you are actually willing to take responsibility for yourselves? thanks, matt. let me say two things. with regards to numbers in these different categories, as you ve
colonel, the withdrawal deadline august 31st, it s only seven days away. would that be enough time for the military to complete the evacuation mission for american citizens, for american green card holders, for special immigrant visa applicants, and get troops and weapons out, one more week? well, jake, it would depend on how much cooperation they get from the taliban. in this case i would say that you can do everything except for the last part, the siv holders, the special immigrant visa holders and other folks that are in even lesser visa categories like the so-called p-1 and p-2 visa categories. those would be extremely difficult to extract and i don t think we have enough time to do that unfortunately. david chalian, let me ask you because we re hearing from a lot of republicans that biden needs to keep his promise to the special immigrant visas and the u.s. troops need to stay in afghanistan as long as it takes before not only american citizens and green card holders are eva
priority as well. the department of defense has secured hamed karzai airport. there s instructions on when and how to get there for civilians. we have communicated to the first tranche of american citizens. we re working hand and glove to load planes safely and securely and as fast as possible. we completed our draw down to the core diplomatic presence that we need. at this time we ll no longer need to facilitate departures for embassy personnel. all remaining staff will be assists departures from afghanistan and the department is surging resources to augment the relocation of american citizens and afghan special immigrants and elsewhere adding personnel to assists with p-1,