This week, the US charge d’affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff, reported that until the beginning of May, more than 20,000 Cubans had benefited from the policy of US President Joe Biden, of the “humanitarian parole.” From January to May, in just four months, that number of Cubans had arrived in the northern country legally.
Ziff insisted that this is the path that Cubans must choose and stop risking a boat crossing or through coyotes at the border, because they will risk nothing, since they will be returned to Cuba and will not be able to access the “parole” in five years. For the diplomat, this new immigration policy is very effective and he thinks that they will not eliminate it for a long time.
The US diplomat pointed out that he is not aware of “any particular plan to change” the parole, beyond the attempts of Republican prosecutors to stop it, during a trial in Texas next June. Ziff apparently does not believe that this lawsuit will prosper.
PAROLE TO THE UNITED STATES FROM CUBA
Until April, about 14,000 Cubans had arrived in the United States this way, which speaks of the fact that in a single month, more than 6,000 Cubans arrived in northern lands, safely on a plane. The cases that do not approve or return due to some problem with the documents at the airport are minimal.
As you know, this is a policy that not only benefits Cubans, but also citizens of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti if they get a “sponsor” who doesn’t have to be family, and supports them financially in the United States. In total there are 30,000 “paroles” a month for the citizens of all those countries, and the majority of those who have benefited the most have been Venezuelans and Cubans.
In interview with Univision 23the immigration lawyer José Guerrero specified to those who are still waiting for a response, many of them, since January, 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 your account with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
