We love Shir Zad!!! He’s an amazing person and we really want to help him out here. LINK IN OUR BIO to this campaign. Please donate and share if you are able to. Thanks so much. More below and at the GoFundMe site. In Shir Zad's words. Who am I? (more at the bottom) My name is Shir Zad. I'm a 26-year-old refugee from Afghanistan who fled to the US in September 2021. I speak Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Urdu and English I live with my wife in Elizabeth NJ, working to help other refugees from Afghanistan. The Budget I have spent a lot of time figuring out how to get my family to safety and I understand how to get it done and have friends who have successfully done this with their family members. I would love to share all the information and details with you, but that is not safe in the current situation (We also removed the name of third country from video) so I can try to give a summary this way. To get my 10 family members out I need money for many plane tickets, fees, forms, visas, services,, housing, living expenses and to buy them time to get settled and find work. Once they move to the third country (One day I hope to bring them from that country to the US), The process can take more than a year. They need to have shelter and some savings till the time they find some jobs in third country. The new govt is not recognized by other countries, this way many countries close their air territory on Afghanistan. My family will need to get connected flights to reach the third country and that costs a lot more than a normal ticket. Nowadays passports are sold in black market and each passport cost around $1000-$1200. The legal passport fees is not more than $150 but you have to go through the black market for the passports in our current situation. Visa also has fees. In current situation visas are not always granted in first attempt and people often need to apply a second or third time with additional fees to get their visas. After moving them to the third country the process can take more than 6 months requiring them to extend their visas which requires more fees. Thank you so much for considering helping me and my family. More of my story in the link in Mandy’s bio