The Biden administration has admitted over 1 million people to the US through humanitarian parole programs since 2021

Parole can be offered if it provides an urgent humanitarian or public benefit. It allows entrants to stay for a finite period and to seek work authorization.

Bar chart showing numbers of people admitted via humanitarian parole from countries including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
CBP One is a mobile application that lets migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum preschedule appointments for processing and maintain guaranteed asylum eligibility. Some Ukrainians have received parole at the U.S. border, while others applied from abroad under the Uniting for Ukraine program.
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