Legal Decoder: Termination of CHNV Humanitarian Parole

Today, the Trump Administration issued a Federal Register Notice terminating the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), effective Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. In addition to our press statement, here are detailed takeaways:

• DHS will cancel all pending applications for advance travel authorizations under the CHNV programs.

• The grant of parole for noncitizens currently in the U.S. on CHNV parole will terminate 30 days after publication (Thursday, April 24, 2025).The government sees this FRN as written notice of termination to CHNV parolees, but will also provide individual notice to each parolee through their USCIS online account.
  Parole-based employment authorization/work permits will be revoked upon termination of parole.
  

• Parolees without a lawful basis to remain in the U.S. following this termination of CHNV parole must depart the U.S. before their parole termination date. This means that CHNV beneficiaries without a lawful basis to remain must depart the U.S. before their parole termination date or April 24, whichever comes first.Parolees departing the United States via land border POEs are asked to report their departure once outside the U.S. via the CBP One app.
  DHS intends to target for deportation any CHNV parolees who do not depart before their parole termination date and do not have any lawful basis to remain in the U.S.
  
  DHS will prioritize for removal those who:Have not, prior to the publication of this notice, properly filed an immigration benefit request to obtain a lawful basis to remain in the United States (e.g., adjustment of status, asylum, Temporary Protected Status, or T or U visa), and
  Are not the beneficiary of an immigration benefit request properly filed by someone else on their behalf (e.g., petition for alien relative, fiancé petition, petition for immigrant employee)
  DHS could use expedited removal to deport CHNV parolees who have been in the U.S. for less than 2 years.