Explainer on Termination of Parole
This document was last updated June 23, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET
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The Trump administration opposes most uses of humanitarian parole and has terminated the parole of many people. If you entered the United States on parole, it is important that you speak to a legal service provider about your options.
1. DHS has emailed termination notices to people who 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 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. You can check when your next scheduled court date is here. It is important that you check this system regularly 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.ÂÂ
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 from an attorney.
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 in your absence after you have left that will bar you from returning to the United States. Leaving the country will mean immigration applications you have submitted will be considered abandoned and will make it harder for you to gain future immigration benefits.
2. 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 district judge put this mass termination of CHNV on hold. On May 30, the Supreme Court granted the government’s request to block the district court’s order while the appeal at the First Circuit Court of Appeal proceeds. On June 12, DHS began sending notices of termination to CHNV parolees. CHNV beneficiaries whose parole and work authorization are terminated will receive notices via their email address or myUSCIS account.
If you arrived through the U4U program, you may have received a notification terminating your parole in error. The administration has not yet terminated the U4U program.
3. DHS has said in policy documents that it plans to place people whose parole has been terminated in expedited removal whereby you can be detained and ordered deported without having a chance to present your case in court.ÂÂ
This includes even people who have an application for relief pending in court or with USCIS. There are resources below that discuss how to plan for the possibility of being detained and being placed in expedited removal.ÂÂ
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.
ICE officers have been arresting people after immigration court proceedings.
To avoid attending court in person, you or your attorney can request to have a virtual hearing via WebX.ÂÂ
During your immigration court hearing, the ICE attorney may try to end your court proceedings to place you instead into expedited removal. You or your attorney can oppose dismissal of the case by telling the judge if you have a fear of returning to your country and of your intention to attend immigration court hearings to pursue the relief for which you believe yourself eligible. You can also request that the government file a written motion to dismiss and give you a chance to respond. If the judge nonetheless dismisses the proceedings, you or your attorney should say you want to appeal and should have thirty days to do so.
If you submitted an asylum application to the court, 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.ÂÂ
Regardless of what the judge does in immigration court, ICE may detain you and place you in expedited removal. If you have a lawyer, you should make sure to sign all the forms required for their representation of you should you be detained and discuss the expedited removal process, including what happens during a credible fear interview under the heightened standard that could be applied to you if you entered the country at the southern border between May 11 2023 and May 11 2025. You should also discuss a plan with your family in case you are detained.ÂÂ
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 credible fear interview and a chance to seek asylum or protection under the Convention against Torture.
If you submitted an asylum application (Form I-589) to USCIS, you may receive a notice from USCIS telling you that your application cannot be processed and that you instead can request that an ICE officer refer you for a credible fear interview or come to the asylum office for a credible fear interview. You should discuss this notice with a legal service provider.
4. Beginning on April 30, 2025 DHS sent out by email notices of intent to revoke employment authorization in fifteen days 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. On June 12, DHS also began sending out notices revoking employment authorization to people who arrived through the CHNV program.ÂÂ
You can discuss with an attorney whether to respond by uploading countervailing evidence that your parole is still valid, including 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.
5. 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.ÂÂ
On May 28, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume processing of immigration applications (for work permits, re-parole, Temporary Protected Status, asylum, adjustment of status) filed by those who entered through humanitarian parole programs. The court also certified a nationwide class to ensure that impacted individuals are protected. On June 9, USCIS authorized officers to resume final adjudication of applications and processing of re-parole requests by those paroled under U4U, CHNV, and family reunification parole (FRP) processes.ÂÂ
If you arrived on one of those programs, consult with an attorney about what is required if you are interested in submitting a request for re-parole or application for another form of relief.
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.
6. 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, Afghanistan, and Cameroon, and Nepal though these are being or will be challenged in court. On May 19, 2025 the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can implement the termination of Venezuela’s 2023 TPS at any time. DHS has posted a notice that TPS for Venezuelans with April 3, 2025 documentation has terminated. If you received on or before February 5, 2025 a notice approving your Form I-821 Application for TPS through October 2, 2026 or a Form I-94 extending your TPS through October 2, 2026, then your TPS remains valid through October 2, 2026. TPS under the 2021 designation for Venezuela remains in effect through September 10, 2025.
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.
Further Resources
How to find Legal Service Providers
https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory
Find Help | Ready To Stay
https://ailalawyer.com/
Explainers on parole policy
https://www.cliniclegal.org/resources/enforcement-and-detention/frequently-asked-questions-trump-administration-policies
https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/setting-the-record-straight-on-chnv/
https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/irap-explainer-on-initial-trump-actions-attacking-parole-and-parolees
Information for people who got parole after a CBP One appointment at the border:
Explainer on Asylum and TPS
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/law-changes-jan-2025/
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/temporary-protected-status/
https://www.nationaltpsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NTPSA-v.-Noem-FAQ-English_6-4-25.pdf
Explainers on work permits
https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/work-permits/
https://www.cliniclegal.org/resources/asylum-and-refugee-law/employment-authorization-documents/all-about-employment
For more information about CHNV class action lawsuit:
https://justiceactioncenter.org/svitlana-doe-v-noem-class-action/
Explainers on Expedited Removal
https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-expanded-expedited-removal
https://immigrationlitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25.02.28-ER-FINALx.pdf
https://nipnlg.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/alert-protecting-noncitizens-er.pdf
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 or detained
https://www.nilc.org/resources/know-your-rights-what-to-do-if-arrested-detained-immigration
Request that immigration judge change hearing from in-person to virtual via WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
Response to Motion to dismiss in immigration court proceeding
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/template-opposition-dhs-motion-dismiss-pursue-expedited-removal
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/oral-opposition-dismissal-template-pro-se-respondents