Sulay, who is awaiting humanitarian parole, explains that there are three people. “The sponsorship was given to me by my brother on January 11 and the file received on the eleventh day.”
Since then, this family has been waiting. “It’s crazy to receive confirmation. In my WhatsApp group the same. We are desperate.
But they are not the only ones, as hundreds of families who applied for humanitarian parole in the first days of his announcement have yet to receive a response.
We know that we may not all be eligible for the program, but we also believe that it is time for us to have an answer from the authorities to find out what will happen to our cases”, warns Yenia Mora , who is a sponsor.
At first, many thought that case review would be based on the date of application, but practice has shown that this is not the case. “And approvals for April and March have already been processed.”
Something that is really very desperate for loved ones on both sides. On this point, the Department of Homeland Security said only that it was not a random process – although many consider it to be – and that each case was independent.
Luis Miranda of the National Security Department explains that this process “is not a lottery. Each case is specific, it depends on the sponsor’s request. And then, how long does it take to verify the information.”
For her part, immigration lawyer Claudia Cañizares says what she “does is that I send a message to immigration, from the application itself, asking them to to act because more than ninety days have passed”.
On its page, the Citizenship and Immigration Service will specify that a new form should not be submitted in the name of the same beneficiary, because instead of speeding up the process, it could cause additional delays.
As of March 31, statistics for people granted humanitarian parole showed 15,000 Cubans, 18,000 Haitians, 32,500 Venezuelans and 7,500 Nicaraguans. The highest figure corresponds to the Venezuelans because parole began for them three months earlier.
After humanitarian parole, border encounters with migrants from recipient countries fell from 1,231 per week to 46.