Cuban migrants with I-220A forms join in protest in front of ICE office in Miami

Cuban migrants with I-220A joined in protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar, Florida, asking to be allowed to access permanent immigration status in the US, reported 51 Telemundo.

After many islanders had been given hope in recent weeks by this form, due to a new law that had generated great expectations, many continue to be in a migratory limbo that does not seem to have a solution in the short term.

According to immigration attorney Jose Guerrero, the law, which has excited thousands of Cubans who find themselves in this situation, does not mean that those who have the I-220A form can automatically obtain parole. It will only facilitate an internal review in some cases to determine whether the authorities should have granted them parole when they were released.

Bryan Pérez, an internist, emigrated from Cuba to the Cayman Islands, then went to Nicaragua, and from there he had a long journey until he reached the United States, and the authorities gave him form I-220A.

This parole order does not allow Cubans to benefit from the Cuban Adjustment Act, since migrants with the I-220A are not considered to have entered U.S. territory legally.

Cuban exile Dayana Pérez, for her part, says she left the communist country more than a year ago and crossed Central America with her young children and was processed by the North American authorities in the border area that borders Tijuana, Mexico.

Dayana, like the vast majority of Cubans in her situation, is eagerly awaiting permission to obtain legal residency in the United States, but this possibility seems increasingly distant.

"It is not a law that means that all I-220As will be granted parole," said Guerrero, an immigration law specialist.

Yuniel Escabera, another migrant from the Greater Antilles, explains that they should have the same opportunities that their compatriots in the United States have historically had, since they have all been forced to emigrate due to a cruel tyranny in Cuba.

As of today, some 400 migrants with I-220A remain without immigration status in the United States, however, many have discretionarily received in their emails a change of status to humanitarian parole, which has allowed them to apply for permanent residence in the land of freedom.