Canada vowed to resettle 40,000 refugees from Afghanistan. According to the , after nine months only 12,605 have arrived.

For one man, who told CTV National News he wishes to remain anonymous, life has been terrifying since the Aug. 2021 Taliban takeover. He said he worked as a lawyer on behalf of the Canadian embassy and now lives in fear of retribution.

鈥淲e are living like refugees in our homeland,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e are living in hiding and mostly changing our location so the Taliban soldiers don鈥檛 know about us, about our whereabouts.鈥�

Ottawa has promised to bring in those who assisted the Canadian government and has received nearly 15,000 applications through , but only 6,230 have arrived. Another 6,375 people have come in through a .

In December, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said it could take two years to fulfill the Canadian government鈥檚 promise of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.

Canada currently has no diplomatic or military presence in Afghanistan, and the government says getting people out of the country remains a challenge. For those who remain in Afghanistan, they say it鈥檚 a challenge to just get their phone calls to Canadian officials returned.

鈥淚 reached the airport but it was crowded and horrible,鈥� said a man who also represented the Canadian government in court in Afghanistan. He said he received a letter known as an 鈥渁irport pass鈥� from the U.S. government that included his wife and two-year-old son鈥檚 names.

But when they went to the airport, only he was allowed to leave.

鈥淎t the end I just made a decision that okay, I have to go and then I will work to get them to safety,鈥� he said from Colorado. His family remains stuck in Afghanistan.

Both men worked for Saeeq Shajjan鈥檚 law firm in Afghanistan. Shajjan, who was able to escape Kabul for Canada, said he fears the Taliban is set to increase efforts to find those who helped foreign governments.

鈥淭o this day they are very much going after the security forces in Afghanistan to make sure that there is no armed resistance against them,鈥� he told 麻豆影视 from Toronto. 鈥淭hen definitely they鈥檙e going to come after lawyers, they will come after judges, they will come after other civil rights activists.鈥�