Faster Admission for Qualified Central American Immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that starting July 10th, 2023, it will allow 100,000 immigrants from Columbia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have approved family-based visa petitions to come to the U.S. The petitioning family member in the U.S. will receive an invitation to apply for the foreign-citizen family member to come under humanitarian parole which will allow them to work in the U.S. They will get their green cards when a visa becomes available to them according to their priority dates. This applies to children and spouses of permanent residents and adult children, and siblings of U.S. citizens.