Journalist Mario J. Pentón has reported live on the cancellation of hundreds of travel permits and airline tickets for beneficiaries of the humanitarian parole program who were traveling to the United States.
This Saturday morning, hundreds of travelers were unable to board their flights to the United States. According to PentonAmerican Airlines explained that the flight permits “had been revoked” and that, therefore, they could not allow the passengers to board.
This information had not been previously announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Another journalist, Alexis Boentes of Telemundo 51, confirmed This news. He recently wrote: “It is sad for those who had their travel permits and today were not allowed to fly to the United States. In its statement on the temporary suspension of Humanitarian Parole, the DHS did not mention anything about this.”
On Friday, Cuban Directory reported that the United States had paused advance travel authorizations under the humanitarian parole program. We warned that this could affect not only new authorizations, but the entire program in general.
US suspends flight permits for parole recipients
Officially, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News and other media that, “out of an abundance of caution,” it had temporarily frozen the issuance of advance travel authorizations for the program.
Humanitarian parole allows up to 30,000 nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to travel to the United States each month and enter legally, as long as they meet certain conditions.
A congressional source told Fox News that the pause was implemented in mid-July following an internal report that revealed large amounts of fraud in applications by applicants’ sponsors.
DHS said the pause was due to the review of sponsor applications and not the program beneficiaries themselves. A DHS spokesperson said, “We will resume processing applications as soon as possible.”
It has been stated at all times that this is a temporary decision and that, in principle, it would not affect the programme. However, with the denial of flights to already approved beneficiaries, uncertainty increases.
Willy Allen, Florida Immigration Attorney, express recently that his hope is that “in the next 60 days DHS can have a system in place that corrects the errors and that parole can be returned.”
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