WASHINGTON (AP) – Taliban troops have taken the capital of Afghanistan. The crowd panicked the airport. And a young man who has worked as a subcontractor for the US military faced a terrible choice.

Hasibullah desire, after navigating chaotic paths and Taliban examination posts to make it inside the airport, can return to his wife and two small children or take an evacuation plane and get it later. Not taking a flight possibility means that no one out of Afghanistan.

Decision of desire to haunt him. He was in the U.S., one of more than 78,000 Afghan citizens who were treated in the country after the withdrawal of the U.S. troops. In August which ended the longest American war. But his family could not join him. They are still in Afghanistan, where the economic crisis has caused widespread hunger and where the oppression of the Taliban is increasing.

My wife is alone there,” he said, his voice broke when he depicted a phone call at night. “My child cried, asking where I was, when I came. And I don’t know what to say. “

This is a reminder that the journey for many Afghan citizens who come to the United States in historical evacuation remains an ongoing job, filled with uncertainty and anxiety about the future.

Afghanistan refugees, some of which faced the possibility of retaliation for working with their government or American troops during the war with the Taliban, said in an interview that they thanked the US for saving them and family members.

But they often struggle to get a foothold on new land, trying to pay their bills as assistance from the government and residential institutions starting to run out, trapped in temporary housing, and trying to find ways to apply for asylum because most of the majority of Afghanistan are under status The two -year emergency known as humanitarian parole.

We are not sure what might happen,” said Gulsom Esmaelzade, whose family has been back and forth among hotel rooms in the San Diego area since January, after spending three months at the New Jersey military base. “We don’t have anything at home in Afghanistan and here we also don’t have the future.”

Required victims. Esmaelzade said his mother had to be rushed three times to the emergency room when his blood pressure jumped to a dangerous level. Younger women associate it with the pressure of their lives.

Then there are more worldly challenges that remain frightening for many Afghan people. They include learning English, navigating government bureaucracy and public transportation, and looking for work.

There is also isolation for them, such as desires, who come alone. “I don’t know anyone here,” he said in an apartment outside Washington which he shared with two other refugees. “I don’t have friends, no family, no relatives. I only live with my roommate and my roommate come from other parts of Afghanistan. “

Some have been successfully established. “But there are many more that are not good than the good,” said Megan Flores, Executive Director of the Center for Immigrant & Refugee Seizure in McLean, Virginia.

Afghanistan experience that was evacuated was not like what the refugees faced historically in coming to the United States. In some cases it is a review for up to 100,000 Ukrainians who according to President Joe Biden will be welcomed, also in many cases in two years of humanitarian parole.

Afghanistan about the acquisition of humanitarian parole must submit a request for ways to live in this country such as through asylum. It’s a time-consuming process that typically requires finding an immigration Attorney, at a cost of thousands of dollars not readily Available to most refugees unless they can find someone to do it pro bono.