Screening and Identity Verification Support for Afghan Nationals

It is expert Afghan identity verification support for agencies that must establish who an Afghan national is: Afghan document verification and analysis of civil records, reconciliation of names and dates across records in Pashto, Dari and English, and neutral interpreting for screening interviews. Ariana Nexus provides the analysis and interpretation; the agency makes every decision.

Immigration and citizenship agencies, border and consular programs, refugee and resettlement programs, law enforcement, state and local agencies, the prime contractors that support them, and foreign governments and international organizations screening Afghan nationals in Canada, the UK and Europe.

Not on our own, and never on appearance. We report what a document records, which era and channel issued it, how its format compares with published references such as the EU PRADO register, and whether its content agrees with the rest of the file, each with a stated confidence, and we flag when a forensic laboratory examination of physical security features is warranted. The determination stays with the agency.

No. We never route documents, personal data or inquiries through channels controlled by the de facto authorities, and we use no registry lookups in Afghanistan. Doing so could expose applicants and their families. Our findings rest on the documents, published references and the file itself.

Pashto and Dari are written in Arabic script, and no official standard fixes how Afghan personal names are spelled in Latin letters. Passports carry a phonetic transcription, and most Afghans have no fixed surname, so one person can appear as Mohammad, Muhammad or Mohammed, with or without a father's name, tribe or honorific. Our Name Variant Register documents which spellings belong to one identity.

Because many Afghans were never issued a birth date. The paper tazkira records an estimated age in the year of issue, and Western forms often convert that estimate to January 1. The DHS Inspector General found January 1 in 11,110 of 88,977 evacuee records. On its own it is a recording practice, not an indicator of fraud.

A Solar Hijri year begins at Nowruz, around March 21. Add 621 years for dates from Nowruz to December 31 and 622 for dates from January 1 to Nowruz, then place the day within the month. Afghan months carry zodiac names: Pashto names such as Wray and Arabic-derived Dari names such as Hamal, unlike Iran's Farvardin. We show the arithmetic for every date.

Yes: on site, by video or by telephone, for screening and security interviews, re-interviews, credible fear screenings, benefit and consular interviews, and law enforcement interviews. Interpreters confirm the applicant's language and variety before the first question, interpret completely and consecutively, and sign the declarations the agency requires.

Not for screening. Afghan Dari differs from Iranian Farsi in vocabulary, official terms, month names and place names, and a mismatch produces answers that read as inconsistencies. We assign Pashto interpreters in the applicant's regional variety, and Afghan Dari interpreters in the applicant's own dialect, Kabuli, Herati or Hazaragi among them.

Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Kyrgyz, Balochi, Brahui, Pashayi, Aimaq, the Nuristani languages, the Pamir languages and the smaller languages of the east and south. Pashto and Dari are available on demand; other languages are scheduled, and we confirm the interpreter, the variety and the time at booking.

Every assignment starts with a conflict check for family, tribal, regional and political ties. Interpreters take a neutrality undertaking, never advise or converse off the record, and never comment on credibility. Analysts separate findings from judgment, a second analyst reviews every conclusion blind, and we never act for an applicant and an agency in the same matter.

No. We report linguistic, documentary and cultural findings with stated confidence and limits. Eligibility, admissibility, credibility and risk decisions remain with the agency, which is also what keeps our findings useful at appeal.

Case files are handled in an access-controlled environment with audit logging, encryption in transit and at rest, no personal devices and minimum-necessary access, under controls aligned to NIST SP 800-171. We respect asylum confidentiality under 8 CFR 208.6, apply GDPR and UK GDPR in Europe, and return or destroy files at the end of the contract as it directs, with a written record.

A single-case document and name review is typically returned within five business days, with priority turnaround by arrangement. Remote Pashto and Dari interpreters are available on demand, and program-scale and surge timelines are set with the agency at intake.

Software returns scores; we return reasons. Automated tools struggle with Pashto and Dari names, Solar Hijri dates and Afghan issuing eras; the German government told the Bundestag in 2023 that its federal asylum office's name-transcription software handled Arabic names only. We work alongside your tools, explaining the matches they flag and the ones they miss.

Yes. We support agencies and programs in Canada and Europe according to the type and scale of the project, with findings and interpreting in English, French, German and our other working languages, and with GDPR and UK GDPR obligations built in.

Directly, for a single case, a defined caseload or an interview program, or through a prime contractor as a teaming partner. Ariana Nexus is registered in SAM.gov (UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9, CAGE 1Z3A3), works in all 50 states and is registered as a vendor in 37.

We record the issuing era and channel of every document: offices under the Taliban's de facto authorities, missions still operating in the Republic's name, or an extension. Passports issued since August 2021 continue to name the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as issuer, and some EU member states do not recognize passports issued after August 15, 2021. We report these facts; recognition decisions stay with the receiving state.