WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Thursday sent more consular officials to Kabul and other locations, including Qatar and Kuwait, to help evacuate efforts from Afghanistan after the Taliban confiscated the capital on Sunday.
Foreign department spokesman Ned said 6,000 people who were fully processed are currently at the airport in Kabul and will immediately take a plane.
He added that Washington would almost double the number of consular officials in Kabul, without revealing how much he was deployed.
A source said that the White House official said Congress’s direction on Thursday morning that the United States has evacuated 6,741 individuals, including 1,792 American citizens and residents remain legal, from Kabul.
The source, who listened to the teleconference, quoted thieves who said that “the biggest bottleneck” got refugees through the crowd of the Kabul Airport gate.
“This department sent a consular staffing team to Qatar and Kuwait to help transit efforts and we are preparing a team to surge into other processing locations,” said price.
Once the consular capacity in Kabul multiply, he said the Department of Foreign Affairs believes it will have the number of officers needed to process individuals and fill flights.
Pentagon said the aim was to evacuate between 5,000 and 9,000 people a day.
The United States “was significantly expanded” in the number of American citizens, staff employed locally, special imigrant visa applicants (SIV) and other Afghans who qualified for departure, said prices, added that around 20 flights would leave Kabul on Thursday night.
Thousands of desperate people tried to pass the Taliban roads and US troops to reach the airport.
On Thursday, the Taliban urged the crowds of Afghans who were waiting outside to return home, said they did not want to hurt anyone, the day after shooting the protesters and killed three.