Judge Orders USCIS to Resume Processing Immigration Benefits for Humanitarian Parolees
The agency has been ordered by a judge to resume immigration processing for parolees from Ukraine, CHNV and other humanitarian programs.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has resumed adjudication of immigration applications filed by individuals who entered the country through humanitarian parole programs, including Uniting for Ukraine (U4U), after a federal court order mandated the agency to lift a months-long administrative freeze.
A new USCIS policy memorandum, issued June 9, 2025, “instructs USCIS officers to adjudicate all pending benefits request filed by aliens who are or were paroled into the United States under Uniting for Ukraine (U4U), the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV Parole Program), and Family Reunification Parole (FRP) processes to a final agency action once USCIS has completed the additional vetting requirement for the parolees’ individual requests.”
The memorandum also “authorizes USCIS officers to resume processing requests for re-parole and associated benefits for aliens paroled through a categorical parole program which were previously pa…