US Government Resumes Humanitarian Entry Program for Citizens of 4 Countries

The United States government will resume an updated version of a migrant sponsorship program that it had paused earlier this summer over concerns of fraud, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Thursday.

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The program is part of an effort by the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden to increase legal pathways to the United States and discourage illegal border crossings {snip}

The program allows up to 30,000 people into the United States each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela if they have sponsors and meet other conditions. {snip}

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As of June 30, some 495,000 people from those four nations had entered the United States under the program, which began for Venezuelans in 2022 and the other nationalities in 2023, according to DHS statistics.

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