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January 23, 2026
Thanks to Historic Settlement, U.S. Government Close to Meeting Requirements for Afghan Asylum Applicants
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- Following a historic settlement in the Ahmed v
- DHS lawsuit filed by Kirkland & Ellis and the National Immigrant Justice Center, the U.S
- government has adjudicated over 18,000 asylum applications from Afghan evacuees who entered the U.S
- under Operation Allies Welcome, clearing more than 90% of the backlog
- The settlement, reached in September 2023, required the government to address delays in processing, with only about 2,400 applications still pending as of May 2024.
one of the largest asylum adjudication class action settlements in U.S. history
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