A Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report released this month found that roughly 40 percent of asylum applications filed by Afghan evacuees resettled during the Biden administration contained vetting errors, including missed aliases, missing security checks, and unresolved records.
The report, dated September 23, 2026, analyzed a statistical sample of 678 applications drawn from 13,682 adjudicated cases belonging to the Operation Allies Welcome population — the program created in 2021 after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. According to Breitbart News, which first reported the findings, the IG’s office identified 303 missed aliases, 23 missing security checks, 45 unresolved records, and 115 other documentation issues within the applications it reviewed.
The IG cautioned that the pattern of mistakes could have consequences beyond paperwork. “The prevalence and type of errors suggest U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may have missed opportunities to potentially link names provided by applicants to derogatory information,” the report states, “which in turn would compromise the integrity of alien registration file (A-File) contents that future users rely upon for immigration administration and enforcement activities.”
What the Report Found
According to the IG’s findings, most of the errors stemmed from missed aliases or incomplete documentation. Two cases involved potential inadmissibility on terrorism-related grounds, the report noted. Some errors occurred when an asylum officer failed to catch a spelling variation of a name or did not reprint and add a document to the applicant’s A-File.
Operation Allies Welcome was launched in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The program resettled roughly 75,000 Afghans in a matter of months, and some were not interviewed in person before being admitted to the United States.
The inspector general’s findings add to a series of prior reports and allegations about the vetting of Afghan evacuees. In September 2022, the DHS IG issued a report stating that the administration had brought in Afghans who were “not fully vetted” and could “pose a risk to national security.” Earlier, in February 2022, a Department of Defense IG report found that about 50 Afghans were flagged for “significant security concerns” after their resettlement, and that most of those flagged for possible terrorism ties had since disappeared into American communities. As of September 17, 2021, that report noted, only three of 31 Afghans flagged with specific “derogatory information” could be located.
Prior Warnings and Cases
Concerns about the vetting process were raised in Congress as well. In 2021, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) requested information on how many Afghans seeking entry to the United States appeared on the federal government’s “No Fly List” because of suspected ties to Islamic terrorism. Biden administration officials declined to disclose the total.
In August 2022, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) detailed allegations from a whistleblower who claimed the administration knowingly resettled nearly 400 Afghans listed as “potential threats” in federal databases and had urged staff to cut corners during vetting. In May 2022, a Project Veritas report alleged that Afghans on the federal “Terrorism Watch List” were resettled in American communities.
There have also been criminal cases. A 27-year-old Afghan man, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, was arrested in Oklahoma last year after allegedly planning an Election Day terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS. He had entered the United States through Operation Allies Welcome, according to the Justice Department. Separately, in April 2023, a former Defense Department official told Congress that some unvetted Afghans resettled in the United States had been involved in planting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan targeting American troops.
The new IG report does not estimate how many of the 75,000 evacuees may have been affected by the errors found in the sample, but its statistical findings suggest that a substantial share of the asylum files reviewed contained at least one vetting-related mistake.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/09/29/federal-watchdog-reveals-vetting-errors-40-percent-afghan-migrants-resettled-us/