CHNV
Collective US humanitarian parole programme for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, closed to new Cuban applicants in March 2025.
CHNV was the collective US humanitarian parole route for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans; the Cuban leg was closed to new applicants in March 2025, leaving individual Form I-131 filings as the only formal exit channel it once replaced.
Last refreshed: 17 July 2026
With CHNV closed, is a single USCIS form now the only way a prominent Cuban dissident can leave the island?
Timeline for CHNV
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Cuba DispatchBackground
CHNV was a collective US humanitarian parole programme letting vetted nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela apply for advance parole into the United States with a US-based sponsor, running alongside other humanitarian parole tracks rather than through the standard immigration system.
The Trump administration closed the Cuban leg of CHNV to new applicants in March 2025, ending the sponsor-backed group channel for Cuban nationals .
With that route shut, individual Form I-131 filings with USCIS are now the only formal relocation channel it Left behind for Cubans seeking humanitarian parole, a narrower and slower process than the collective programme it replaced .