No One Left Behind

Nasrat, a recipient of funding from the America's Allies Scholarship Program in 2025, earned straight A's in his first semester at Sacramento City College, all while learning in a new language and supporting his family.

Applications just opened up for the 2026 round of the AASP. Available to Afghan and Iraqi allies with Special Immigrant Visas, the AASP helps support those in need as they work towards building the skills and knowledge needed to thrive within the American economy.

🗓️Apply by July 26, 2026!

Submit your application today: www.nooneleft.org/aaspapplication

Questions can be directed to [email protected].

This program is run in collaboration between No One Left Behind and Afghan Future Fund.

A Platform Commander Gets a Second Chance - Afghan Future Fund In Afghanistan, Nasrat Shafiq commanded a platform, military terminology for leading a defensive position and the soldiers who hold it. He graduated from the Indian Military Academy as a commissioned officer. When he spoke, men followed. In Sacramento, he depends on a friend from his apartment compl...

Three years ago, Zohra Obaidy sat at her laptop late at night, typing her symptoms into Google. She was looking for a therapist who spoke Dari and understood Afghan families. She couldn't find one.

So she decided to become one.

Today she's in a community college classroom, on the path to becoming a family therapist, one of 21 wartime allies the America's Allies Scholarship Program backed in 2025, a partnership between No One Left Behind and the Afghan Future Fund.

She served as an advocacy officer for a USAID program in Afghanistan. Now she'll serve the women coming up behind her.

Read the full story at: nooneleft.org/aaspzohra

Azad spent years watching America from the outside, as an interpreter for U.S. forces in Iraq, serving a country he had never lived in.

His first Fourth of July here, he was inside it. Friends from those years brought him to their families' cookout, sparklers, and fireworks and all.

"This is home now," he thought.

Now, Azad works to bring other wartime allies the same welcome.

In his own words -

My first Fourth of July in America is something I'll never forget. After years of serving alongside U.S. forces as an interpreter in Iraq, I was finally here. I wasn’t a visitor. I was finally someone beginning a new life I had only dreamt of.

Friends I'd served with invited me to celebrate with their families. There were veterans, kids with sparklers running everywhere, barbecue, laughter, and fireworks lighting up the sky.

I remember thinking, ‘This is home now.’ ​

For the first time, I wasn't watching America from the outside. Now, I was part of it. Every Fourth of July since has reminded me how grateful I am for the chance to build a life here, to serve this country as a U.S. Marine, and now to help other wartime allies find the same chance I was given.”

No one can guarantee you a visa, green card, or work permit. Anyone who promises that, or pressures you to pay immediately, is running a scam. The wrong help can hurt your immigration case.

Our partners at Global Refuge have produced a short video on how to find immigration help you can trust, available in English, Dari, and Pashto.

If you or someone in your family is working through a case, watch it and pass it on.

Learn more: globalrefuge.org/UPIL

Dari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqd3fN8eIM
Pashto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MVez33izI
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZEU7wytvQ

The Wrong Help Can Hurt | Global Refuge Global Refuge Immigration Legal Services assists refugees and other immigrants with their immigration-related applications. Clients should not rely on family and friends.