Explainer on Termination of Parole
Last updated on May 5, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. ET
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If you received a notification that your parole will be terminated and that you should leave the United States, it is important that you seek out advice from a legal service provider about what to do.
People have received these notices who are in different situations, have different options, and need to take different steps.
Planned and ongoing court cases challenging the termination of parole, the way notices are being sent to terminate parole, and enforcement against people who entered through parole also may impact policies that affect you. It is important that you stay informed about these cases.
1. If you were paroled into the United States after presenting for a CBP One appointment at a land border port of entry and receiving a notice to appear in immigration court, you may have received a notice in April 2025 that your parole is terminating in 7 days or immediately. Notices were sent by email to the address used when making the CBP One appointment.
You can check the length of your parole on your I-94 form. The government may have changed the end-date of your parole by changing the date in that online system.
Regardless of the termination of parole, you may be able to pursue other forms of immigration relief through immigration court proceedings.
You may have already submitted an application for immigration relief. You can check when your next scheduled court date is here. It is important that you check this system every week and take a picture of the date when your case was first put into the court system and when you are next to appear in court. If your hearing date changes or is no longer listed, you should speak to a legal service provider.
If you want to pursue asylum or another form of relief in immigration court and have not yet submitted your application to the court, you should seek out legal support regarding your eligibility so as to apply as soon as possible.
If you decide to leave the country, seek out legal advice regarding how to end your court proceedings and withdraw any applications you have submitted. Even if you use the CBP Home app to tell DHS that you are leaving, you are at risk of receiving a deportation order from immigration court even after you have left that will bar you from returning to the United States. If you have already submitted an application for asylum or another immigration benefit, leaving the country will mean your application will be considered abandoned and will make it harder for you to gain future immigration benefits.
2. Termination of parole also terminates your parole based employment authorization/work permit. This is true no matter the expiration date on the work permit.
On April 30, 2025 DHS sent out by email notices of intent to revoke employment authorization as of May 13, 2025 to people who were paroled into the United States after presenting for a CBP One appointment and received a prior notice of termination of their parole. In response, you can upload countervailing evidence that your parole is still valid with a letter stating you did not receive lawful notice of its termination along with documentation of your original parole date.
If you are eligible for work authorization on another basis, such as a pending asylum application or TPS, termination of your parole does not affect your eligibility for those work permits. You should consult legal counsel and other resources below regarding applying for a work permit on another basis. USCIS may take a long time to process these work permit applications.
3. If you are a person who arrived in the United States on the CHNV parole program through an airport, you may have received a notice that your parole and associated work authorization will be terminated on April 24, 2025.
On April 14, a federal judge put this mass termination of CHNV on hold. This means that, currently, each person who entered through CHNV has parole until the end date issued to them. Work permits associated with this parole also remain valid until then.
The judge also certified a nationwide class of all individuals with CHNV parole who are still in the U.S. and subject to that revocation. There is a link below to more information about this class action and how to get updates about it.
DHS can individually terminate the parole of those who entered through CHNV and detain individual parolees. DHS has said in policy documents that it plans to prioritize for removal those parolees who had not applied for another immigration benefit.
4. If you arrived through a parole program and have applied to USCIS for an immigration benefit, you may be able to continue to pursue that immigration relief.
USCIS is currently not processing applications for people who came in through U4U, CHNV and a family reunification parole process. Litigation is challenging this suspension of application processing.
If you are a parolee waiting for a family-sponsored preference category visa to become available before you apply for adjustment of status, you will not have lawful status once your parole terminates (unless you have been granted another legal status) and will lose your eligibility to apply for lawful permanent residence.
If you decide to leave the country, seek out legal advice regarding how to withdraw any applications you have submitted and future plans to apply for a visa abroad.
5. If you are a person who entered through parole and already has received a grant of asylum, TPS, a visa, or a green card, termination of your parole will not affect that status. Termination of parole only affects your parole, and any work authorization based on parole, not other applications or petitions you have pending or statuses you have obtained.
The Trump administration announced ending of TPS for Venezuela, Haiti and Afghanistan, though these are being or will be challenged in court. People with Venezuela TPS can now re-register to extend their TPS to be valid until October 2, 2026. And most work permits based on Venezuela TPS are automatically extended until April 2, 2026. Learn more here.
If you are a DACA beneficiary, an applicant for adjustment to permanent status, or a TPS holder who requested advanced parole, you may have received notification of termination of parole. Your underlying benefit or status has not been terminated. However, leaving the country with advanced parole poses risks about your retaining that status and ability to re-enter the United States so you should consult with a legal service provider before doing so.
6. If you arrived through the U4U program, you may have received a notification terminating your parole in error. The administration has stated that it has not terminated the U4U program.
7. It is possible DHS will seek to remove people paroled into the United States even if they have an application for relief pending in court or with USCIS.
If ICE arrests you, you should tell officers immediately if you have a fear of return to harm, persecution or torture in your country of origin and request insistently for a chance to seek asylum or protection under the Convention against Torture.
There is a resource below discussing copies of documents you can show officers regarding how long you have legally been in the country and that you already filed an application for asylum, TPS or another immigrant benefit. If you have a check-in with ICE, it is important to have these documents with you and to ask a U.S. citizen to accompany you, if possible.
If you are in ongoing court proceedings, ICE may try to end your court proceedings to place you instead into expedited removal, whereby you can be ordered deported without having a chance to present your case in court. Your attorney and you can challenge this. If you have an opportunity to object to the end of your immigration court proceedings, that may be helpful in your record. You can tell the judge if you have a fear of returning to your country and your intention to attend immigration court hearings to pursue the relief for which you believe yourself eligible.
If you submitted an asylum application, an immigration judge may try to end your proceedings without giving you a chance to testify or try to make you provide evidence about your application at your first immigration court hearing. Resources below explain how you or your attorney can ask for a chance to testify and for a separate hearing to present evidence.
Further Resources
How to find Legal Service Providers
https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory
Explainers on parole policy
Explainer on Asylum Policy
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/law-changes-jan-2025/
For more information about CHNV class action lawsuit:
https://justiceactioncenter.org/svitlana-doe-v-noem-class-action/
Information for people who got parole after a CBP One appointment at the border:
Explainers on work permits
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/work-permits/
Safety Measures and plans for asylum seekers and parolees
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/safety-measures/
https://www.wehaverights.us/create-an-emergency-plan
What to do when arrested
https://www.nilc.org/resources/know-your-rights-what-to-do-if-arrested-detained-immigration
Response to Motion to dismiss in immigration court proceeding
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/template-opposition-dhs-motion-dismiss-pursue-expedited-removal