And then one day in 2013, she got a call at her USAID office. It was
from the distraught wife of one of her USAID colleagues, another
Afghan. The caller's husband had just been murdered, apparently in
retaliation for his work with the Americans. Realizing that her life was in danger, too, Patmana applied for a
special immigrant visa. For 2 years, she and her husband were subjected
to repeated interviews at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Her background was
checked and rechecked before visas were finally granted. She told me
that they would move frequently. They couldn't stay in one place very
long because the Taliban would find them.
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