Explainer on Termination of Parole

By Yael Schacher | October 27, 2025

This document was last updated October 27, 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.

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1. DHS 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.

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. In July 2025, Congress and the Executive Office of Immigration Review in charge of the immigration courts imposed new fees on applications. Here is information about the fees and how to pay them.

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. There are resources below that explain what we know about how CBP Home works and the cost of self deportation, including the difficulty of returning to the United States legally after self deportation.

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 receive notices via their email address or myUSCIS account. On September 12, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the administration’s termination of CHNV was likely legal.

If you arrived through the Uniting for Ukraine/U4U program, you may have received a notification terminating your parole in error. The administration has not yet terminated en masse the paroles of those who arrived through U4U.

3. 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.

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, Operation Allies Welcome, CHNV, and family reunification parole (FRP) processes. If you have reason to believe that DHS is not processing your application, you can contact the legal team handling the Doe v. Noem case here.

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 or benefit, including new fees for applications imposed by Congress and USCIS. USCIS is subjecting these applications to vetting and there have been increasing numbers of discretionary denials of applications by people who arrived on parole programs.

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.

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.

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.

Employers using E-Verify access status change reports indicating employees whose EADs have been revoked.

In August 2025, a federal court case was filed challenging the mass termination of parole and work authorization for people who received parole after their CBP One appointments at the border. This explainer will keep you updated on developments in this case.

If you are eligible for work authorization on a basis other than parole, 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, as well as processing times and fees imposed for those applications.

5. DHS has said in policy documents that it plans to place people whose parole has been terminated in expedited removal. This includes people who have an application pending in immigration court or with USCIS.

Being placed in expedited removal leads to your detention and limits your opportunity to seek relief to a credible fear interview. USCIS officers have been authorized to place people in expedited removal and, on October 6, are authorized to make arrests.

If you submitted an asylum application (Form I-589) to USCIS, you may receive a notice from USCIS telling you that your application is dismissed or cannot be processed and that you instead can request that an ICE officer refer you for a credible fear interview or that you should come to the asylum office for a credible fear interview. You should discuss this notice with a legal service provider.

This is especially the case because on August 1, 2025, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled that people who applied to enter and were paroled into the United States through airports or land border ports of entry cannot be placed in expedited removal. On August 18, an appeals court partially stayed this ruling, but then denied the stay on September 12. So it is currently unlawful to place those who entered on humanitarian parole into expedited removal.

This means that if you entered on parole, you should insist you cannot be placed in expedited removal. If DHS tries to terminate your case in immigration court and subject you to expedited removal, you should oppose this by raising the decision in the Chirla v. Noem case. If the asylum office dismissed your application and schedules you for a credible fear interview, send or have your attorney send a copy of the decision in Chirla v. Noem to the asylum office along with proof of your arrival at a port of entry and parole. If you are detained by ICE and subject to expedited removal, your attorney should send the same to your deportation officer and request that your expedited removal order be vacated. At the beginning of a credible fear interview, tell the asylum officer you should not be subject to expedited removal per the decision in the Chirla v. Noem case and that your order of placement in expedited removal be vacated.

People who arrived on parole could still be arrested and placed in detention and in full removal proceedings. Further, people who arrived on parole could be subject to expedited removal in the future. So being well prepared is important. Below are steps to take and resources with further information:

a) ICE could detain you at your workplace or on the street. 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.

b) To avoid attending immigration court in person, you or your attorney can request to have a virtual hearing via WebX.

c) If the ICE attorney tries to end your court proceedings, 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. If the judge nonetheless dismisses the proceedings, you or your attorney can appeal and have thirty days to do so. But there is a new fee for such an appeal.

d) If you submitted an asylum application to the court, an immigration judge may try to end your proceedings and end hearings on your application. This is called “pretermission.” Recently judges have been pretermitting applications they deem incomplete or insufficient. To prevent this from happening in your case, you or your attorney may want to amend or clarify your submitted application and there are resources below that describe how to do that. Judges have also been pre-termitting cases on the grounds that the applicant is subject to an agreement with Honduras or Guatemala and must seek asylum there.

e) Regardless of what the judge does in immigration court, ICE could detain you. ICE could also detain you at an immigration check in or appointment or at the asylum office when you appear for an interview. If you have a lawyer, you should make sure to sign all the forms required for their representation of you should you be detained by ICE and should you be given a credible fear interview by USCIS. You should 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) and the possibility of removal to a third country. You should also discuss a plan with your family in case you are detained.

f) 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 any third country and request insistently for a fear interview and a chance to seek asylum or protection under the Convention against Torture. Since DHS is removing people to both home and third countries, it is important that you articulate fear and request protection from removal to all possible countries.

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 affecting parolees from Venezuela, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Cameroon, though these are being challenged in court.

On July 21, 2025, the appeals court in Virginia allowed the Trump administration to terminate Afghanistan TPS. The fight against this termination continues in the lower court.

A federal court judge in New York has ruled that TPS for Haiti will remain in effect through February 3, 2026.

Due to a Supreme Court decision, if you initially applied for TPS for Venezuela under the 2021 designation, your TPS is valid through November 7, 2025. If you initially applied for TPS for Venezuela under the 2023 designation, your TPS has ended.

There are two exceptions. If you applied to re-register and received an approval notice or work permit based on TPS between January 17 and February 5, 2025, your TPS remains valid until October 2, 2026. If you applied to renew your work permit based on TPS and you received a receipt notice with the automatic extension between January 17 and February 5, 2025, your work permit is extended until April 2, 2026. But you lack protected status so could still be subject to detention or deportation.

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:

https://support.iraplegalinfo.org/hc/en-us/articles/36683919670548-Important-Information-for-People-Who-Got-Parole-Using-CBP-One

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
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/oral-opposition-dismissal-template-pro-se-respondents

What to do if an immigration judge tries to end your case without a hearing

https://nipnlg.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/advisory-avoiding-pretermission.pdf

How-To Guide for Immigrants Representing Themselves in Immigration Court and Facing Pretermission

Practitioner Advisory: Challenging EOIR’s 2025 Pretermission Policy Memo in Immigration Court

How to amend an asylum application:

i-589-amendments-filing

Information about new immigration court fees and USCIS application fees

https://asaptogether.org/en/new-fees/
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1407326/dl?inline
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-updates-fees-based-on-hr-1
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/22/2025-13738/uscis-immigration-fees-required-by-hr-1-reconciliation-bill
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/16/2025-19564/immigration-parole-fee-required-by-hr-1-reconciliation-bill

1. DHS 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.

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.

3. 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.

5. DHS has said in policy documents that it plans to place people whose parole has been terminated in expedited removal. This includes people who have an application pending in immigration court or with USCIS.

Further Resources

How to find Legal Service Providers

Explainers on parole policy

Information for people who got parole after a CBP One appointment at the border:

Explainer on Asylum and TPS

Explainers on work permits

For more information about CHNV class action lawsuit:

Information about the CHIRLA v. Noem decision on expedited removal:

Explainers on Expedited Removal

Information on removal to third countries

Information about self-deportation and CBP Home

Safety Measures and plans for asylum seekers and parolees

What to do when arrested or detained

Request that immigration judge change hearing from in-person to virtual via WebEx

Response to Motion to dismiss in immigration court proceeding

What to do if an immigration judge tries to end your case without a hearing

How to amend an asylum application:

Information about new immigration court fees and USCIS application fees