Humanitarian Parole is Back, but with More Anti-Fraud Measures
by carlos matías
A quarter of a million migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti have been breathing easier since August 29, after learning that the Biden Administration is restarting the Temporary Permits to Remain (Humanitarian Parole Program).
Immigrants will have to make sure to comply with the new anti-fraud rules and conditions, to avoid the deceptions detected by the U.S. federal government, which had suspended the program on August 2.
The new anti-fraud rules for the Humanitarian Parole Program include a more thorough check of sponsors’ financial records and criminal histories, additional screening to identify fraudulent sponsor profiles, and enhanced review methods to identify trends in serial filings.
“The Department of Homeland Security will now also require fingerprinting of U.S.-based sponsors,” DHS says in a statement.
Migrants seeking to enter the United States “should use this process or other existing processes, as well as legal, safe, and orderly pathways, including opportunities available through the Offices of Secure Mobility,” DHS concludes. There will be tougher legal (possibly criminal) action against those who persist in committing fraud.
“The federal government had detected a multitude of applications for Humanitarian Parole processing with multiple or deceased sponsors,” Jessica Mayora, a Colombian-Venezuelan social communicator and resident of North Carolina, of Enlace Latino NC, the most important permanent information platform in Spanish in America, tells Sol de Medianoche.
“Of the 494,780 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti who applied for Humanitarian Parole, almost 100,000 were allegedly fraudulent,” explains Jessica. Currently, 248,000 applications had been accepted before the fraud was detected. Another 30,000 were rejected and some 250,000 more are still waiting a decision. With some 56,000 Latino permanent residents, Alaska is not one of the states where most Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians or Cubans reside, largely due to two reasons: the geographic distance from their countries of origin and the very different climate.
