Washington, DC: According to a DHS announcement, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ending the parole programs for “inadmissible aliens” from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, announced in 2022 and 2023. Paragraphs for the close relatives of individuals from certain countries will also be revoked, the DHS warned.

“The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is ending the categorical parole programs for inadmissible aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and their immediate family members (hereafter referred to as “CHNV parole programs”). The government said in a statement that this Federal Register notice is meant to offer public context and direction on the cessation of the CHNV parole programs and associated work authorization”.

Under the Biden administration, this was started under the name CHNV parole programs.

The government also said that parolees without a legal reason to be in the United States after the CHNV parole programs were terminated had to leave the US before their parole termination date.

The ruling followed DHS’s analysis of the effectiveness of the CHNV Parole program, launched to guard the borders.

Trump’s Executive Order “Securing Our Borders,” dated January 20, 2025, set a policy of the United States to take all necessary action to secure its borders using a variety of means, including deterring and stopping the entrance of illegal aliens into the United States and fast removing all aliens who enter or remain in violation of Federal law.

DHS claimed in its report that on review, the CHNV parole program had a “deterrent” and “incentive” approach that did not result in a sufficient and consistent improvement in border security, so “exacerbated challenges associated with interior enforcement of the immigration laws.”

“CHNV parole programs have at least traded an unmanageable population of unlawful migration along the Southwest border for the additional complication of a substantial population of aliens in the interior of the United States without a clear path to a durable status,” the DHS paper said.

A notification issued by the Department of Homeland Security in the Federal Register and due to be published on March 25 claims that the work permits and deportation safeguards for around 532,000 individuals from the four countries would be revoked on April 24. The New York Post reports.

Especially, the parole program started during the Biden administration in October 2022 let foreign people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela fly into the US and remain and work for up to two years if they could find a sponsor resident in the nation.

After an internal review revealed that hundreds of sponsors for the migrants were listing fictitious social security numbers or phone numbers and using the same physical address for thousands of parole applications, the Biden government temporarily stopped the program in July 2024, according to the New York Post. The program was beset with rampant fraud.