Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
Humanitarian Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans was a program under which citizens of these four countries, and their immediate family members, could be paroled into the United States for a period of up to two years if a person in the US agreed to financially support them. The program allowed a combined total of 30,000 people per month from the four countries to enter the US. The program was implemented in 2022 (Venezuela) to 2023 (Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua) in response to high numbers of migrants and asylum seekers from these countries crossing into the US at the southwest border with Mexico. Each of the four countries is facing political, social, and/or economic instability.
The CHNV Program is credited with greatly reducing numbers of people of these nationalities crossing into the US at the southwest border. After the implementation of Humanitarian Parole for Venezuelans, the number of Venezuelans encountered each week by the US Department of Homeland Security fell by over 90%. The US government promised to deport any person from these four countries who arrived to the US not through the program.
The CHNV Parole program was modeled after Uniting for Ukraine, which was implemented in response to large numbers of Ukrainians arriving at the US border with Mexico in 2022 as a result of the Ukrainian refugee crisis since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
The program was ended on January 20, 2025, through an executive order by President Donald Trump.