After Trump ends protections, Haitians in Florida brace for what's next

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3. Article clarifying the CHNV program

TPS is different, but neither program provided any long term status

In the last two years, nearly 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have arrived in the United States to live and work here legally. They have come under a program known as “CHNV,” named for the nationalities of its beneficiaries. The CHNV program allows people in the United States to petition to sponsor potential beneficiaries; if approved, they are paroled into the country for a period of two years, and allowed to apply for work permits after they arrive.

Since the program was created for Venezuela in fall 2022 (and expanded to the other three countries in January 2023), however, the future of the program – and by extension the people who have benefited from it – has been unclear.

This month, however, the Biden administration clarified: people who are in the U.S. under CHNV will not be able to use the program to stay in the U.S. for more than two years. When the two-year parole grants start expiring – as they have for the first Venezuelan beneficiaries – the government will not grant new ones.

This doesn’t mean the U.S. is kicking everyone out. Most of the people who are here under CHNV are eligible to apply for other forms of legal protection. The people most affected by the Biden administration’s decision are Nicaraguans, who are not categorically eligible for another legal status – and who may start having to decide, in January of next year, whether to leave the U.S. or remain as unauthorized immigrants.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2024/10/16/chnv-parole-wont-last-options-to-stay-in-the-us/