NEW DELHI—Mohamad Qais Malikzada, 41, has been in India for more than six years with his wife and three children. For six years he has been waiting for refugee status from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), which he claims will allow him to immigrate to either the United States or Canada, for which family will sponsor him. He has been one of the thousands protesting outside UNHCR’s office in New Delhi since Aug. 22, demanding the closed cases of Afghan asylum seekers be opened without “conditions and regulation,” refugee cards issued to long-pending cases, and permanent resettlement in other countries be fast-tracked. Like Malikzada, there are 15,467 Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers registered with the UNHCR, India as of July 2021, according to Kiri Atri, the Assistant External Relations Officer of UNHCR, India. The Taliban taking over Afghanistan, targeted killings, and the  explosions at the Kabul airport on …