2023-05-12 14:03:33
More than 20,000 Cubans have benefited from the Biden Administration’s “Humanitarian Parole” program since it was launched in January of this year, he confirmed to the agency EFEthe charge d’affaires of the United States in Havana, Benjamin Ziff.
The American diplomat also assured that he is not aware of “any particular plan to change” this policy that offers a residence permit in the US for two years to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti if they are legally and financially supported by a ” sponsor”.
At the beginning of April, close to 14,000 Cubans had received permission to enter the United States with the “Humanitarian Parole” program, according to official figures. In the last month, more than 6,000 paroles have been delivered to Cubans to reach the current figures.
The new “Humanitarian Parole” program grants a temporary stay permit to foreigners, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, in the United States.
The program has 30,000 monthly permits to reside and work in the US, provided they are Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan or Haitian citizens. Among the requirements to apply include, in addition to the “sponsor”, being located outside the United States, having a valid and current passport for international travel, among others.
The immigration lawyer, José Guerrero, in an interview with Univision 23 recommended to those who are still waiting for a response to their application, that they not duplicate the applications and that the sponsor “write a letter asking for the status of the case or if something additional is missing”, through his account in the Citizenship and Immigration Services of the United States. United States (USCIS).
In a report from mid-March, the undersecretary of the US Department of State, Brian Nichols, assured that the parole “has benefited Cubans of all walks of life, including members of the human rights community.”
The high official of the Joe Biden government pointed out, in a presentation at Florida International University, that the “desperation” that unleashed the anti-government protests of July 2021 on the island has also caused “a wave of migration, with more Cubans arriving in our southern border and the beaches of Florida in the last year than during the maritime migration waves of 1980 and 1994 combined”.
On the other hand, in mid-June a trial against the “Humanitarian Parole” program will be held in the Texas city of Victoria after a lawsuit filed by representatives of the states of Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, Louisiana, Idaho, Alabama , Utah, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Ohio, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Kansas.
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