Some Afghan refugees in Pakistan: The US embassy's immunity letter is not acceptable to the police

Some Afghan refugees in Pakistan: The US embassy’s immunity letter is not acceptable to the police

A number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, who have received the letter of immunity from the US Embassy, ​​complain about the insignificance of this letter to the Pakistani police.

Sara, who is the holder of the P2 immigration file of the United States and came to Pakistan a year and a half ago because of the process of her case, says that the police arrested her husband despite having this letter and said that they will deport him to Afghanistan:
“My husband has both a letter and a passport, and he still has the case number (U, N, H, C, R). Only his visa has expired. He was fired by the police from his job in Peshawar Board arrested and they were told that this US letter and case number (U, N, H, C, R) are not acceptable to us at all and we will deport you to Afghanistan.”

She claims that in addition to her husband, her brother, who also has an immunity letter from the American Embassy, ​​was arrested before, but was released again after giving money to the police.

Ahmad Wali, another holder of an American immigration file in Peshawar, Pakistan, says that the police arrested one of his neighbors on Saturday despite having an immunity letter from the American Embassy and sent him to Torkham:
“Yesterday, our neighbor, whose name was Abdul Hamid, and who had a P2 case, was a letter from the embassy of his country, he had a passport, but since his visa had expired, the police arrested him and took him in a large car in Nasser Bagh and deported him to Torkham.”

This issue has worried some US immigration file holders who live in Pakistan.

Farid, one of them said:
“Our visas have expired and in November, the American government sent us a letter saying that we have shared your information with the Pakistani government. This letter sent to us is not acceptable to the Pakistani police and we We are worried about our situation.”

Earlier, Manizeh Kakar, the lawyer defending Afghan prisoners in Karachi and the Afghan embassy in Pakistan, under the control of the Taliban government, had claimed that the police of this country had arrested and deported some Afghan immigrants who had immigration cards.