{"id":7119,"date":"2021-08-16T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-update-regarding-afghanistan-evacuation\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:39","slug":"sen-ossoff-update-regarding-afghanistan-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-update-regarding-afghanistan-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Update Regarding Afghanistan Evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy team remains on call to assist constituents with information and support regarding evacuation procedures and consular services for Americans who remain in Afghanistan and for SIV-eligible Afghan nationals who have worked for and with the U.S. government.<br><br>\u201cI continue to urge the Biden Administration to make every effort to protect and evacuate U.S. citizens and SIV-eligible Afghans.<br><br>\u201cI commend the heroic ongoing efforts of U.S. military personnel supporting the airlift out of Kabul&nbsp;and pray for their safe return.<br><br>\u201cMy team is also standing by to connect U.S. service members and veterans with mental health services and other forms of support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any Georgian seeking assistance is encouraged to call 470-786-7800 or visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/\">ossoff.senate.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any veteran or service member in need of mental health services should immediately reach out to the Veterans Crisis Line (800-273-8255) or visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.va.gov\/\">mentalhealth.va.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement: \u201cMy team remains on call to assist constituents with information and support regarding evacuation procedures and consular services for Americans who remain in Afghanistan and for SIV-eligible Afghan nationals who have worked for and with the U.S. government. \u201cI continue to urge the Biden [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7119","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7119\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}