Humanitarian Parole for Afghans: A Discussion of USCIS's Recently Released Guidance

Humanitarian Parole for Afghans: A Discussion of USCIS's Recently Released Guidance and the Trends Practitioners Are Seeing

Humanitarian Parole, a temporary authorization to enter the United States, was a vital component of the U.S. plan to resettle Afghans after our country left Afghanistan in 2021. Through FOIA requests, the International Refugee Assistance Project and the Council discovered that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was unprepared to handle the vast numbers of applications filed by Afghans seeking humanitarian parole. Thousands of applications for this form of relief remain pending, and practitioners are seeing inconsistent adjudications of humanitarian relief petitions.

On Thursday, February 29, at 2:00 PM EST, join panelists from Project ANAR and IRAP to discuss the most recent USCIS guidance on humanitarian parole and what practitioners from Project ANAR are experiencing when they file applications for humanitarian parole for Afghan nationals. Adriel Orozco, Senior Policy Counsel at AIC, will also join the panel to talk about the latest news on potential changes to humanitarian parole being discussed as part of Congress’s attempt at an immigration overhaul. Moderated by Raul Pinto, Deputy Legal Director of Transparency.