The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported a significant increase in the number of people crossing Afghanistan’s borders in the second quarter of 2024. More than 532,000 people left the country and more than 858,000 entered it.
International Organization for Migration was suggested There are some obvious reasons for people leaving Afghanistan, like economic opportunity and safety in other countries, as well as common travel reasons from any country, like visiting family abroad. According to the IOM, about 80 percent of the migrants they spoke to cited poor economic conditions as their main reason for leaving Afghanistan.
U.S. Department of State Said The ministry said Thursday it is working to more quickly process applications from Afghans seeking to immigrate to the United States.
State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said:
Afghanistan’s allies and partners may be eligible for transfers to the United States through a variety of channels, including SIVs. [Speacial Immigrant Visas] or if your application is rejected for any other reason, we remain committed to doing all we can to process your application as quickly as possible.
“Of course, we appreciate the cooperation with certain host countries like Pakistan and we continue to do everything in our power to process them quickly and efficiently,” Patel added.
The influx of people into Afghanistan was mainly due to refugees who were expelled from other countries and forced to return home.
“My husband and I were working together. We lost our jobs so we crossed illegally into Iran, stayed there for two years and then came back to Afghanistan. Now we have no job, no place to live and nothing to eat,” said one of the refugees. Said Afghanistan’s AmTV on Friday.
The home of an Afghan migrant living in the Iranian city of Qur Burn An Afghan national is suspected of killing an Iranian man on Friday.
The victim, a 62-year-old restaurateur, was allegedly killed by his 17-year-old apprentice, whose identity has never been officially released but is widely believed to be of Afghanistan origin.
Tensions over Afghan refugees have risen in Iran since the Taliban took power in 2021. Hashtags describing the forced repatriation of Afghan refugees as a “national demand” have frequently trended on Iranian social media, as have rumors blaming Afghans, such as an alleged leprosy outbreak.
Afghans are banned from living in about half of Iran’s provinces, and Iranian authorities boast that they are forcibly deporting hundreds of Afghans back to Afghanistan every day.
IOM previously Charted Afghan migrants are being forcibly repatriated from Iran and Pakistan, some of whom appear to have returned voluntarily, as the economies of those countries have worsened.
Afghans still Considered Afghanistan is the third largest refugee population in the world after Syrians and Ukrainians. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees in the world, of which 2.2 million live in Iran and Pakistan, and a further 3.5 million are internally displaced.
