A group of United States citizens and Afghan evacuees have been permitted to travel to the US from the United Arab Emirates after being temporarily held up for vetting, according to the Gulf state’s foreign ministry.The 117 passengers had been stuck at Abu Dhabi’s international airport after arriving from Kabul, a lawyer who had been working to relocate the passengers told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.In an email on Thursday to Reuters news agency, the UAE foreign ministry said the “processing of those passengers has been completed and they have already departed for the United States on a commercial aircraft (Etihad) this morning”.
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