{"id":38204,"date":"2013-10-30T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38204"},"modified":"2013-10-30T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:48:45","slug":"shinwari-wheels-down-on-us-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38204","title":{"rendered":"Shinwari:  Wheels Down on US Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s written multiple times (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37457\">here<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37494\"> here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37711\">here<\/a>) about Janis Shinwari, the Afghan interpreter who saved the life of a US soldier and later applied for a US visa under a special program.\u00a0 Shinwari initially got a visa, sold most of his belongings and prepared to move his family to the US \u2013 then was notified that his visa had been \u201cfrozen\u201d without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the story has a happy ending.\u00a0 A few hours after the US government shutdown ended, his visa was reinstated.\u00a0\u00a0 He and his family landed in the DC area earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Matt Zellar \u2013 the former MI officer whose life Shinwari saved \u2013 for bulldogging this one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/please-help-janis-shinwari-who-saved-my-life-in-afghanistan\">Change.org<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing Shinwari would still be in limbo (or worse) if not for Zellar&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Army Times<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131030\/NEWS\/310300015\/With-soldier-s-help-Afghan-interpreter-family-land-U-S-\">more details<\/a>.\u00a0 IMO it&#8217;s worth taking the 5 min to read their article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s written multiple times (here, here, and here) about Janis Shinwari, the Afghan interpreter who saved &hellip; <a title=\"Shinwari:  Wheels Down on US Soil\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shinwari:  Wheels Down on US Soil<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}