The Biden Administration Should Promptly Restart and Improve the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program
The Biden Administration Should Promptly Restart and Improve the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program Campaigning in Miami on October 5, 2020, President Biden promised to protect and reinstate the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program (HFRP), which former President Trump had effectively crippled on taking office in 2017 by not having the National Visa Center (NVC) issue any new invitations to apply for it, as the program requires. This strangled HFRP by restricting it to completion of the processing of beneficiaries whose petitioners had applied for the program on receiving NVC invitations during the Obama administration. Soon the number of such beneficiaries still in the pipeline dwindled as they were eventually approved or rejected. President Biden should promptly restart the program by having the NVC issue a new batch of invitations to eligible petitioners to apply for it, and he should improve the program in the following ways: USCIS should expand HFRP by permitting […]