This ban potentially affects thousands of people, including a young girl from Afghanistan,

and we're calling her Saira, blurring her face and altering her voice to protect her identity

for her safety.

She spoke to producer Zaba Varsi from Peshavar in neighboring Pakistan, where she traveled

for her U.S. visa appointment.

Now she doesn't know where to go.

As Afghan students, we cannot study in our country.

I waited for one year to complete this process.

They're applying for a university in the United States is not easy.

Despite her best efforts, Cyra feels abandoned again.

Although I have successfully obtained a student, Despite her best efforts, Saira feels abandoned again.

Although I have successfully obtained a student visa for this fall semester, but this new policy giving me anxiety.

Before the Taliban took over in 2021, she was a first-year journalism student at Kabul University with big dreams.

But the Taliban crushed them.

For the last four years, they've banned women and girls from school and from most of public life.

But Syrah didn't give up.

She fought against the Taliban by protesting Kabul. And last year, she applied to 11 colleges

in the U.S. and got accepted to five. This fall, she was all set to attend a college in Pennsylvania

to study political science. I really want to study political science because I want to work on

Afghanistan politics area, especially for women's rights in Afghanistan.

My only goal is to use this opportunity in the United States, use the United States

education only for to serve for my country, serve for women like me who are suffering right now,

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