Cuban-American seeks to sue USCIS for errors committed with the humanitarian parole program

A few hours ago, Cuban journalist Mario J. Pentón posted a video on his Instagram profile in which he exposes an audio where a Cuban-American woman denounces several irregularities that were committed as part of the humanitarian parole process related to some of her relatives. The woman claims that the main objective of her audio is to denounce the problems that USCIS has committed since the humanitarian parole was approved in January 2023.

According to her, she is an American citizen and has lived in the United States since 1998 when she arrived from Cuba. From an economic point of view, she considers that she has all the essential requirements to apply for the humanitarian parole program. The affidavit she put so that her relatives could be chosen is quite positive, in addition to the taxes she paid in 2023, the properties of the two houses she owns in her name, her bank accounts, letters from her employers, among many other requirements. "All the information they asked for I put verbatim in the initial application," she said.

She adds that she initially filed eight cases of humanitarian parole, the first was on July 17, 2023 for her brother's daughter. The second two cases were added on July 4 of the same year for a cousin of hers and her husband, then she added her mother-in-law and later the son of a family friend whom they love as if he were family.

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In October 2023, she submitted the last cases to the application, which are for a cousin of hers and her two young children. The woman claims that throughout the year that they waited for her relatives and friends to be able to receive approval without committing fraud or consulting anyone, several family events occurred that caused the interested party to cancel several requests.

First, the niece had to renew her Cuban passport, considering that it had expired, but then the woman uploaded the update to the application so that there would be no problems. She also sent a message to the USCIS officials' email asking them to update that information. Then the woman's mother-in-law died in Cuba, which she also notified the authorities through the same means as the previous one so that they would discard that request.

Another of the petitions she asked to be cancelled was that of her husband's friend since he had become a Spanish citizen and therefore did not qualify for the program. The remaining six cases were waiting until July 24, 2024, when they received a notification, as did the sponsor, that their cases were confirmed as well as those that she had told them to delete through an email, pointing out that as an irregularity.

On July 25 of this year, one day after the confirmation, they applied to receive their flight permits, but in the case of her niece, the case was confirmed with the previous passport number, so she had to wait until the error was corrected. According to the woman, she called repeatedly through her USCIS account and by email to have the typographical error corrected, which happened positively, receiving the corresponding notifications.

In the middle of the process, the authorities paused the program on August 2 due to alleged fraud schemes in the sponsors' forms, but the woman was hopeful that her relatives would not have any problems in that regard. However, on November 15 at around 9:25 am, she received notifications by cell phone and email that the six cases were not confirmed.

The woman then contacted a USCIS specialist by phone and told him that the decision was final and that the I-134A form she had filed did not support the requests she had made, so she had to start all over again. The woman explains that the same thing was written on last year's Incontax as on this year's.

The Cuban-American said that both USCIS officials and some people who have entered have committed fraud. "Nobody approves a case from outside, someone inside has to have received that money and confirmed those cases were fraudulent," she warned. In correspondence, she assured that the cases she presented were in compliance with what was established.

She adds that she is a hard-working and upright person, so she does not deserve to have her applications denied because she meets all the requirements and she only wanted to bring all those people to her house to gradually get them on the right track, just as they did with her when she arrived in the United States.

The Cuban-born woman asked journalist Mario Pentón to find some information regarding what she should do in this type of case and whether an appeal is really not allowed. She also said that she is fully willing to file a lawsuit against the federal government and USCIS for the irregularities committed. "I need someone to advise me, a lawyer or someone who wants to litigate or give advice to make a decision," she said.

Before concluding, she warned that there are many people who are possibly going through a similar situation, which is overwhelming. "I am very sad and desperate, but I have a lot of faith in the laws of this country because it is a fair country even though we have been a little distorted lately," said the woman who says she is a fair person and has a lot of faith in the American government.