Enduring Welcome was the U.S. government's relocation program for the Afghans who served alongside American troops, diplomats, and aid workers, and for their families.
AfghanEvac helped drive the response from the start, from the emergency airlift and Operation Allies Welcome in 2021 to Enduring Welcome, the durable-status program that replaced it in October 2022. In 2025, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio shut it down, freezing flights, visa issuance, and the office built to run it.
This page tracks where it stands now: the history, the numbers, the people still waiting, and what it will take to restart it.
Every administration before this one left the program issuing more visas than when it arrived. Full breakdown below.
Two things set this program apart from every other immigration pathway: how thoroughly people were checked, and what kind of status they arrived on.
Seventeen years, four administrations, one promise. Scroll through how a program that nearly died in its infancy became the first standing enterprise the United States ever built to relocate its wartime allies, and how it was shut down in a single year.
Every figure below comes from AfghanEvac's tracking of State Department and USCIS reporting, court filings, and CRS data. Hover any chart for the underlying numbers.
Principals plus family members, FY2009–FY2025. Colored by administration.
Source: CRS R43725 Table A-4 (FY09–FY22); State Dept. Sec. 7019(e) reports (FY23–FY25). Issuance fell to zero after Jan. 1, 2026.
Principals + family members.
Trump 2.0's pace has been 0 per month since Jan. 1, 2026.
164,758 Chief of Mission–approved applicants, May 2025 snapshot.
By July 29, 2025, COM approvals had risen to 178,110. The red segment is cleared and documented — waiting only on the two steps the government shut off.
Average total government processing time, in calendar days.
Congress set a 270-day (nine-month) standard in the FY2014 NDAA. Q1 FY2026 processing ran more than four times that standard.
Average monthly pace by administration.
The Biden administration averaged nearly double the pace of any prior administration. The current administration is the first to fall to zero.
This was three connected efforts, not one. Operation Allies Refuge evacuated people out of Kabul in the summer of 2021. Operation Allies Welcome resettled them domestically over the year that followed. Enduring Welcome, launched in October 2022, replaced both with a durable-status pipeline meant to run for roughly a decade. Costs below are grouped by which effort they belong to; read each group as a range, not a single total.
These are Afghan allies whose cases are ready for a final interview, waiting in third countries for a system that has stopped moving. Click a country, or a dot on the map, for detail.
Every one of these claims has circulated in public debate over Enduring Welcome. Here is what the record actually shows, sourced the same way as everything else on this page. Click a claim to see the facts.
Filed in 2018, this class action has produced nearly every enforceable deadline the SIV program has ever had. Litigation kept the promise alive. It cannot, by itself, keep the promise.
AfghanEvac's position, unchanged and unambiguous:
