Ames, Iowa — An Iowa woman says her aunt is in Kabul and will not leave her apartment.
Amber, who lives in Ames, spoke to Iowa Public Radio Monday and IPR did not broadcast the woman’s last name over fears Amber has for her aunt and other family members still in Afghanistan.
She says some of her family members were close to getting visas, but now they don’t know what’s going to happen.
The Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services says once an array of private agencies are ready, up to two-thousand refugees could be resettled in Iowa in a year. According to a spokesman for the governor, 94 refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq have been resettled in Iowa since mid-2016.
