folks to qualify to get out, she told us today that it is a practical impossibility for anybody to take advantage of that, both because of the complexity of what the state department demands as part of that application but also specifically because of this requirement that in order to apply for that visa, you have to leave afghanistan. well, how do you do that? when the taliban now controls the government and the border crossings, as well as internal transportation within the country to a certain extent. president biden yesterday authorized $500 million, which is a significant amount of money, to supercharge the evacuation efforts and the handling of visa requests. the state department told us tonight that they are surging both resources and crucially more personnel, more state department personnel back into kabul to try to get more people processed, to get more people out. they say they expect to have double the number of consular personnel on friday as they do
her husband and her children are safe now in california where we spoke with her today. but she told us her mother and other people who are trying to get out of afghanistan right now, this p-2 visa that supposedly allows all these folks to qualify to get out, she told us today that it is a practical impossibility for anybody to take advantage of that, both because of the complexity of what the state department demands as part of that application but also specifically because of this requirement that in order to apply for that visa, you have to leave afghanistan. well, how do you do that? when the taliban now controls the government and the border crossings, as well as internal transportation within the country to a certain extent. president biden yesterday authorized $500 million, which is a significant amount of money, to supercharge the evacuation efforts and the handling of visa requests. the state department told us tonight that they are surging both resources and crucially more per