Americans evacuated from Kabul arrive UAE to fly on to US

Gulf Today Report

More than 100 US citizens and lawful permanent residents evacuated to the United Arab Emirates from Afghanistan aboard a charter flight are expected to fly on to the United States on Thursday, the State Department and flight organisers said.

US officials on Wednesday were working to verify the accuracy of the list of passengers aboard the charter plane, said organisers of that earlier flight — one of several that emerged from ad hoc networks that formed to bolster last month's chaotic evacuation operation from Afghanistan.

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The State Department had said that US officials were working to verify the accuracy of the list of passengers that had been evacuated to the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.

"The processing of those passengers has been completed and they have already departed for the United States on a commercial aircraft (Etihad) this morning," the UAE foreign ministry said in an emailed response to Reuters.

It did not say whether all the passengers had flown out.

Bryan Stern, a founder of nonprofit group Project Dynamo that chartered the flight, had said 28 US citizens, 83 green card holders and six people with U.S. Special Immigration Visas granted to Afghans who worked for the US government during the 20-year war in Afghanistan were aboard the Kam Air flight from Kabul to Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters.

President Joe Biden's administration has said its top priority is repatriating Americans and green card holders who were unable to leave Afghanistan in the US evacuation operation last month.