US Homeland Security Halts Immigration Permits From 4 Countries Amid Concern About Sponsorship Fraud
AP) — The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors, officials said Friday.
Nearly 500,000 people from the four countries arrived through June under presidential authority after applying online with financial sponsors in the United States and flying at their own expense. It is a major piece of the Democratic administration’s policies to create or expand paths for legal entry while restricting asylum for those who cross the border illegally.
The Homeland Security Department said it “temporarily paused” new authorizations while it reviews the backgrounds of financial sponsors.
The department said it has not identified any security or public safety concerns about people from the four countries who benefit, just their sponsors. Beneficiaries “are thoroughly screened and vetted prior to their arrival to the United States,” it said in statement that promised to “restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards.”
Homeland Security didn’t say when processing was suspended. But the news broke after the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that favors immigration restrictions, cited an internal Homeland Security report that raised questions about fraud.
The Associated Press did not confirm details of the internal review, which neither Homeland Security nor FAIR provided. But FAIR said the report found, among other things, that 3,218 sponsors were responsible for more than 100,000 filings and that 24 of the top 1,000 Social Security numbers used by sponsors corresponded to dead people.
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What was halted was a discretionary relief called Parole, this specific US immigration benefits, parole, is the only kind of benefit temporarily paused to investigate fraud. All other applicants from that 4 countries can continue to apply for various other kind of US immigration benefits that includes but not limited to US visitors visa, greencard and other kind of parole (humanitarian). However, another kind of parole into the US, the one perysiming to signing am affidavit of support for people from Haiti, Venezuela, and 2 other countries have paused.
You are still allowed to submit your application but Adjudication of them have paused, temporarily and shortly, according to the Whitehouse. Remember, the pause only applies to this specific immigration benefit from the US.
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