2023-05-20 13:21:35
The United States Embassy in Havana published a recent message informing about the “lottery” system that has begun to be implemented in the humanitarian parole for Cubans.
The news was announced this month by the Undersecretary of National Security, Blas Núñez-Neto in a telephone press conference. Let’s see the details.
In this context, Núñez-Neto pointed out that the United States began “a historic expansion” of the legal channels of emigration with the parole processes through economic sponsors for nationals of Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela, who have already allowed entry into the country. of more than 100,000 people “in a safe and orderly manner.”
Similarly, he recalled the recent announcement of the “intention to expand family reunification programs”, such as the one already existing in Cuba, to Central American countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia.
However, the official acknowledged “that the demand in the region has been enormous for these parole programs,” therefore, to “maximize the hope that people will have who could be elected,” they decided to make some modifications to the selection process.
“We are going to implement a process where half of the appointments that are available each day, that is, of the 1000 quotas that are processed every day, 500 more or less will be processed randomly in a lottery”, advanced the Undersecretary of National Security.
“Lottery” system in humanitarian parole for Cubans
What does it mean that this “lottery” system is implemented in the humanitarian parole for Cubans? Well, anyone who is waiting can be chosen, it doesn’t matter if they applied in January or May. Five hundred places would be processed “by luck and truth”, as Cubans tend to say colloquially.
According to the details offered, the other half of the appointments will be processed in the order in which the applications are received, to also ensure that people who have been waiting also have their application confirmed.
The implementation of this new system could explain why there are some cases from January that still do not have a resolution.
“Keep in mind that there are many cases to process, to date 95,000 people have been approved, intense work is being done to advance each case. Please continue to use legal avenues to immigrate to the United States,” the letter wrote. embassy.
“I am safe in the lottery format group, because I am from January 31 and I have been waiting for more than 100 days, in any case, we must thank the best country in the world for this opportunity,” said a tweeter.
Others, however, consider that the processing by dates is the fairest. “Ideally, everything would be in chronological order. I pray that mine is approved. February is my month. If it does not fall by chance and I have almost 90 days, in chronological order I am still delayed in this country,” they commented.
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