This was different than TPS status
The Biden administration announced Friday it will not renew a temporary humanitarian program that permitted hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua to stay legally in the United States. The move leaves many of those migrants without a clear path to legal residency, forcing them to either find alternative immigration solutions or face deportation.
The program, known as the CHNV initiative, was created in late 2022 as a measure to curb illegal border crossings, allowed migrants from these four countries to legally live and work in the U.S. for two years if they had financial sponsors and passed background checks. Since its inception, more than 530,000 migrants have used the program to legally fly into the U.S. and obtain temporary legal status. The largest number of arrivals were from Haiti, totaling around 214,000, followed by 117,000 Venezuelans, 111,000 Cubans, and 96,000 Nicaraguans. While the administration will continue to accept new applicants under the initiative, existing migrants will not be granted extensions, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“This two-year period was intended to enable individuals to seek humanitarian relief or other immigration benefits for which they may be eligible, and to work and contribute to the United States,” DHS spokeswoman Naree Ketudat said in a statement. However, migrants who have yet to secure another legal status will be required to leave the country or face removal proceedings.
However, the nearly 100,000 Nicaraguans who entered the U.S. under the program are in a more precarious position. Unlike Cubans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, Nicaraguans do not have a designated legal status to shield them from deportation, leaving them with few options aside from seeking asylum. Asylum is available to those who can prove persecution based on their race, religion, political views, or other protected grounds. But the bar for asylum is high, and not all will qualify.
https://www.boundless.com/blog/biden-administration-ends-temporary-stay-program-thousands-of-migrants-from-four-countries/
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