Timeline of Cuban migration, 1959-2026
174 dated, sourced events: from the first exiles of 1959 to the current state of the Cuban Adjustment Act.
1959-1962
The First Exile
Read the chapterBatista leaves Cuba
Fulgencio Batista leaves the island on New Year's Eve 1958 with his closest associates; the first exile begins with him.
SourceFirst Agrarian Reform Law
The revolutionary government passes the law that eliminates the large private estates.
SourceNationalization of U.S. companies
Cuba begins nationalizing U.S.-owned sugar mills, utilities and banks without compensation.
SourceEisenhower funds refugee aid
The president gives additional funds and powers to Tracy Voorhees, his personal representative for the Cuban refugee problem.
SourceDiplomatic relations severed
The U.S. breaks relations with Cuba and closes its embassy and consulates on the island.
SourceCuban Refugee Program is born
Kennedy directs Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to carry out a nine-point federal plan for refugees in South Florida.
SourceBay of Pigs landing
Brigade 2506, trained by the CIA, lands in Cuba and is defeated within two days.
SourceMigration and Refugee Assistance Act
Public Law 87-510 gives the program a permanent legal basis and lets Congress appropriate funds for it each year.
SourceThe Freedom Tower opens as a refugee center
The federal government leases the first floors of the former Miami News tower, which Cubans will call "El Refugio."
SourceOctober Crisis and end of the flights
Kennedy announces the naval quarantine of Cuba and the Cuban government suspends commercial flights to the United States.
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1960-1962
Operation Pedro Pan
Read the chapterWalsh spots the problem of children alone
The director of Miami's Catholic Welfare Bureau begins dealing with Cuban teenagers who arrived without their parents.
SourceWalsh and Baker join forces
The head of Havana's Ruston Academy and the Miami priest agree to get children out of Cuba and give them shelter.
SourceThe first children arrive
Pan American flight 422 lands in Miami with the first minors sent under the program.
SourceVisa waivers for minors
After relations are severed, the State Department authorizes visa waivers, first 225 and then in blocks of 500.
SourceFederal foster care contracts
Florida, as HEW's agent, contracts with four agencies to care for Cuban minors with federal funds.
SourceThe name "Pedro Pan" reaches the press
Journalist Gene Miller publishes the story and christens the airlift Operation Pedro Pan.
SourcePeak of minors in care
The federal program reaches its high point: 4,100 boys and girls in foster homes and institutions.
SourceEnd of the airlift
The October Crisis cuts the commercial flights between Havana and Miami and ends the operation.
SourcePriority for parents on the Freedom Flights
The Varadero-Miami airlift begins; parents of unaccompanied minors get priority.
SourceRuling in Torres v. CIA
A federal court in Illinois accepts the CIA's search, which found no documents on the operation.
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1962-1965
The Closed-Door Years
Read the chapterThe brigade members return to Miami
The 1,113 prisoners reach the United States on an airlift organized with the Red Cross.
SourceAgreement to free the Bay of Pigs prisoners
Castro signs with attorney James B. Donovan the release of 1,113 brigade members in exchange for $53 million in medicine and food.
SourceKennedy at the Orange Bowl
Before Brigade 2506 in Miami, the president receives its flag and promises to return it "in a free Havana."
SourceChange in program administration
The new Welfare Administration replaces Social Security at the head of the Cuban Refugee Program.
SourceRed Cross ships
The ships and planes carrying the exchange supplies to Cuba serve, until July, as an exit for U.S. citizens who want to leave.
SourceEnd of the Red Cross ships
From July, the only legal way out of Cuba is through third countries, mainly Spain and Mexico.
SourcePriority for the parents of Pedro Pan children
The federal government creates a system to bring parents of unaccompanied minors first, from Spain and Mexico.
Source"Training for Independence" program
The Refugee Center makes aid to 3,800 Cuban women heads of household conditional on job training courses.
SourceVisas from Spain and Mexico
U.S. consulates grant Cubans about 300 immigrant visas a month in Spain and about 500 in Mexico.
SourceThe 1965 immigration reform extends the exclusion to the entire Western Hemisphere
Beginning December 1, 1965, no native of a country in the Western Hemisphere can adjust status through the general route of section 245.
The law: The Text of the Cuban Adjustment Act
1965-1973
Camarioca and the Freedom Flights
Read the chapterCastro offers the port of Camarioca
At the anniversary of the CDRs, Castro announces that Cubans in the U.S. may pick up their relatives by boat.
SourceJohnson answers from the Statue of Liberty
Signing the 1965 immigration law, Johnson declares that Cubans seeking refuge in the U.S. will find it.
SourceCamarioca opens to exile boats
Hundreds of boats leave Florida for Matanzas; by October 18 arrivals already exceed 700.
SourceMemorandum of Understanding
Washington and Havana exchange notes through the Swiss Embassy and agree on an airlift.
SourceFirst Varadero-Miami flight
U.S.-chartered flights begin, with priority for parents, children and spouses of people already living in the U.S.
SourceCuba closes registration
The Cuban government stops accepting new applications; some 250,000 people were already registered.
SourceThe Cuban Adjustment Act is enacted
Public Law 89-732 lets Cubans who were inspected and admitted or paroled become permanent residents after two years in the country.
The law: What the Cuban Adjustment Act IsFirst BIA precedent on the Cuban Adjustment Act
Matter of Alvarez-Riera holds that a Cuban who crossed the Rio Grande without presenting himself for inspection does not meet the requirement of having been inspected and admitted or paroled.
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsMatter of Mesa
A decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service concludes that the public charge ground of inadmissibility does not keep a Cuban from meeting the statutory requirements of the Adjustment Act, although it may weigh in the discretionary decision.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works TodayCuba suspends the airlift
Havana suspends the flights and says it will send one last list of about 1,000 people and no more names.
SourceLast Freedom Flight
The last flight lands in Miami; from then on, legal departure for the U.S. goes through third countries.
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1966
The Birth of the Cuban Adjustment Act
Read the chapterFirst adjustment bill in the House
Representative William F. Ryan introduces H.R. 10808 so that Cuban refugees can become residents without leaving the country.
SourceH.R. 15183 is introduced
Representative Jacob H. Gilbert of New York introduces the bill that will become the Cuban Adjustment Act.
SourceHouse hearings
Subcommittee No. 1 of the Judiciary Committee hears Under Secretary of State George Ball; hearings continue on August 11 and 17.
SourceThe House passes the bill
By 300 votes to 25, under the suspension of the rules procedure.
SourceThe Senate passes its version
It substitutes the text of S. 3712, which requires two years of presence in the country, for the House text.
SourceFinal agreement in Congress
The House adopts the conference report (H. Rept. 2334), which the Senate had approved the day before.
SourceJohnson signs Public Law 89-732
The law lets the Attorney General adjust to permanent resident status Cubans admitted or paroled since 1959.
Source$25 fee waived
Johnson orders that the adjustment fee not be charged to Cuban refugees, because Cuba confiscated their assets when they left.
SourceWestern Hemisphere cap takes effect
From then on, adjustments of Cubans compete for the 120,000 annual Western Hemisphere visas.
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1973-1979
Dialogue and Reunion
Read the chapterAnti-hijacking agreement with Cuba
Washington and Havana formalize, through Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, a memorandum on the hijacking of aircraft and vessels.
SourceParole for Cubans in third countries
The U.S. authorizes an expanded parole program for Cubans who had left the island for other countries.
SourceCuba renounces the anti-hijacking agreement
Nine days after the bombing of a Cubana airliner off Barbados, Castro renounces the 1973 agreement.
SourceSection 5 is added
The 1976 immigration reform provides that adjustments of those already in the country do not reduce the available visas.
The law: The Text of the Cuban Adjustment ActInterests Sections open
The U.S. opens an office in the Swiss Embassy in Havana and Cuba opens one in the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington.
SourceCastro speaks of "the Cuban community abroad"
Before 25 Cuban-American journalists, Castro announces that he will stop calling the exiles "gusanos" (worms).
SourceFirst freed prisoners arrive
A first group of 79 people, political prisoners and their families, arrives in Miami on parole.
SourceFinal Act of the Dialogue
The Cuban government and exile representatives sign the agreement that leads to the release of some 3,600 prisoners.
SourceCommunity visits begin
Thousands of exiles return to visit for the first time since leaving; by year's end there will be nearly 100,000, according to historian Michael J. Bustamante.
SourceMurder of José Negrín
People claiming to belong to Omega 7 take credit for the killing in Union City, New Jersey, of this member of the Committee of 75.
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1980
The Mariel Exodus
Read the chapterThe presence requirement drops from two years to one
The Refugee Act of 1980, the same law that set the modern definition of a refugee, makes the change.
The law: What the Cuban Adjustment Act IsAssault on the Peruvian embassy
A bus carrying six Cubans crashes through the embassy gate; a Cuban guard is killed in the shooting and Havana withdraws its guards.
SourceWashington offers to take in embassy asylum seekers
The White House puts the number of Cubans in the Peruvian compound at 10,800 and offers to admit up to 3,500.
SourceCastro opens the port of Mariel
The Cuban government announces that anyone who wants to leave may do so if someone picks them up at Mariel.
SourceFirst Mariel boat reaches Key West
The first vessel arrives in Florida with 48 Cubans; within days there are hundreds of boats in the harbor.
SourceAttack on former prisoners at the Interests Section
A mob attacks former political prisoners and their families; about 400 people take refuge inside the U.S. diplomatic office.
SourceCarter promises "an open heart and open arms"
At the League of Women Voters convention, the president promises refugees an open heart and open arms.
SourceWhite House changes course
Carter announces a five-point plan, orders the Coast Guard to turn the flotilla back, and threatens fines and seizures.
SourceRiot at Fort Chaffee
Between 2,000 and 3,000 Cubans held at the Arkansas fort riot; buildings burn and 62 people are injured.
SourceThe Cuban-Haitian entrant status is born
According to the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Carter administration creates the Cuban-Haitian entrant program, with temporary parole instead of refugee status.
SourceCuba announces it will suspend Mariel departures
According to the White House summary of September 13, Castro told a Carter envoy that departures would be "suspended" from this date; the Coast Guard ends the emergency on the 28th.
SourceFascell-Stone amendment
Carter signs the Refugee Education Assistance Act, whose title V defines the Cuban and Haitian entrant and opens federal funds.
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1981-1993
Between Two Crises
Read the chapterU.S.-Cuba migration agreement
Cuba agrees to take back 2,746 Mariel excludables; Washington resumes preference visas (up to 20,000 in 1985).
SourceRadio Martí goes on the air and Cuba suspends the agreement
On the day the U.S. government station begins broadcasting, Havana cancels the migration agreement.
SourceReagan suspends Cuban immigration
Proclamation 5517 closes entry for Cuban immigrants, except immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and a few other exceptions.
SourceAdjustment for Cuban and Haitian entrants
Section 202 of the immigration reform law (IRCA) allows Mariel entrants to apply for permanent residence.
SourceThe 1984 agreement is restored
Washington and Havana announce the reactivation of the migration agreement and the return of excludables.
SourceRiot at Oakdale
Cuban Mariel detainees take over the federal detention center in Oakdale, Louisiana, with 36 hostages.
SourceRiot at the Atlanta penitentiary
Cuban detainees in Atlanta take 102 hostages; the riot ends on December 4.
SourceBrothers to the Rescue begins
Volunteer pilots from Miami begin flying over the Straits of Florida to locate rafters.
SourceCuban Democracy Act
The Cuban Democracy Act tightens the embargo: it bars licenses for foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies and restricts vessels that trade with Cuba.
SourceReid bill with repeal included
Senator Harry Reid introduces S. 1351, which repeals the Cuban Adjustment Act under the heading of nondiscrimination in refugee admissions.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment ActSinking of the tugboat 13 de Marzo
A tugboat carrying 72 people fleeing Havana sinks after being rammed by state vessels; the IACHR counted 41 dead.
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1994
The Rafter Crisis
Read the chapterThe Maleconazo
Thousands of people protest on Havana's Malecón shouting "¡Libertad!"; police break up the protest and Castro tours the area.
SourceCuba stops preventing departures
The Cuban government withdraws its coastal patrols and thousands of rafters set out to sea in the following days.
SourceClinton orders rafters taken to Guantánamo
Cubans rescued at sea are no longer brought to the United States and are sent to the naval base.
SourceSanctions on remittances and flights
Clinton suspends cash remittances to Cuba and limits charter flights between Miami and Havana.
SourceFirst rafters at Guantánamo
The first intercepted Cubans arrive at the base; by early September there are nearly 20,000.
SourceTransfer to Panama
The first of the 8,763 rafters moved from Guantánamo begin arriving at camps in Panama.
SourceJoint Communique
The United States commits to admitting at least 20,000 Cubans a year through legal channels; Cuba commits to preventing unsafe departures.
SourceFirst parole protocols
Clinton announces humanitarian parole for people over 70, unaccompanied minors, and the seriously ill at Guantánamo.
SourceDisturbances at the Panama camps
According to GlobalSecurity.org, two days of disturbances leave more than 200 military personnel and 30 Cubans injured; two rafters drown in the Canal trying to flee.
SourceJoint Statement
Cubans at Guantánamo will be allowed into the United States, and those intercepted at sea from then on will be returned to Cuba.
SourceGuantánamo is emptied
The last group of rafters from the 1994 crisis leaves the base.
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1995-2016
Wet Foot, Dry Foot
Read the chapterJoint Statement on migration
The United States and Cuba agree that Cubans intercepted at sea will be returned to the island. The wet foot, dry foot practice is born.
SourceBrothers to the Rescue planes shot down
Cuban fighter jets shoot down two planes of the Miami organization over the Straits of Florida; all four crew members are killed.
SourceHelms-Burton Act
Clinton signs the LIBERTAD Act, which writes the embargo into law and defines what a democratically elected government in Cuba would be.
SourceConditional repeal of the Adjustment Act
Section 606 of IIRIRA provides that the Adjustment Act will be repealed only when the President determines that a democratically elected government is in power in Cuba.
SourceNACARA
A separate law allows Nicaraguans and Cubans present since December 1, 1995 who applied before April 1, 2000 to become residents.
The law: Amendments and Related LawsMemorandum on arrival outside a port of entry
The INS Commissioner directs that residence not be denied because the applicant arrived at a place other than a port of entry.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works TodayElián González rescued
Fishermen find a five-year-old Cuban boy off Fort Lauderdale. His case pits Miami, Washington and Havana against one another for seven months.
SourceElián returns to Cuba
The Supreme Court declines to review the case and the boy goes back to the island with his father.
SourceProtection for abused spouses and children
The 2000 Violence Against Women Act exempts them from showing that they live with the Cuban who abused them.
The law: The Text of the Cuban Adjustment ActMatter of Artigas
The BIA, sitting en banc, holds that immigration judges may decide the Cuban adjustment application of an arriving alien in removal proceedings.
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsThe truck that floated
The Coast Guard intercepts a 1951 Chevrolet truck converted into a boat, with twelve Cubans aboard, south of Key West.
SourceTwo more years for widows, widowers, and divorced persons because of abuse
The 2005 reauthorization adds the last sentence now in force in section 1.
The law: The Text of the Cuban Adjustment ActParole for Cuban doctors
DHS announces the Cuban Medical Professional Parole for health professionals sent by Cuba to third countries.
SourceFamily reunification parole
USCIS creates the Cuban Family Reunification Parole for relatives with approved petitions who were waiting for a visa.
SourceMatter of Martinez-Montalvo
After the 2006 regulatory change, the BIA concludes that the Cuban adjustment of an arriving alien belongs to USCIS and not to the judge.
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsProposal to penalize travel to Cuba
Representative David Rivera proposes requiring five years of presence and denying adjustment to anyone who returns to Cuba.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment ActMatter of Espinosa Guillot
The BIA holds that adjustment under the Cuban Adjustment Act counts as an admission and exposes the resident to the deportability grounds of § 237(a).
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsSilva-Hernandez v. USCIS
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recognizes the full thirty months of rollback for non-Cuban spouses.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works TodayEnd of the white card
Decree-Law 302 takes effect: Cubans no longer need an exit permit to travel.
SourceThaw announced
Obama and Raúl Castro announce the restoration of relations. Fear grows that the special treatment of Cuban migrants will end.
SourcePerez v. USCIS
The Eleventh Circuit allows a federal district court to review a USCIS decision declaring someone legally ineligible for Cuban adjustment.
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsThe Sun Sentinel publishes "Plundering America"
The series attributes to criminal networks from Cuba more than $2 billion in fraud over two decades and points to the Cuban Adjustment Act.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment ActGosar bill to repeal the Act
Representative Paul Gosar introduces H.R. 3818, which repeals the Act and the 1996 clause. It goes no further than a subcommittee.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment ActStranded in Costa Rica
Nicaragua closes the route to Cubans traveling toward the United States; thousands are trapped in Costa Rica and Panama.
SourceRubio proposes cutting benefits
Senator Marco Rubio introduces S. 2441 to withdraw refugee assistance from Cubans who arrive from then on, without touching the Cuban Adjustment Act.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment Act
2017-2020
The End of "Wet Foot, Dry Foot"
Read the chapterEnd of "wet foot, dry foot"
The United States and Cuba sign a Joint Statement in Havana ending the special parole policy and the parole program for Cuban doctors.
SourceExpedited removal for Cubans
The DHS notice eliminating the exception that protected Cubans from deportation without a hearing takes effect.
SourceTrump in Miami
The President announces a tougher policy toward Cuba at the Manuel Artime Theater and signs a memorandum that does not restore wet foot, dry foot.
SourceEmbassy staff leaves
After the health incidents suffered by diplomats, the State Department orders the departure of nonessential staff from Havana.
SourceCuban diplomats expelled
Washington orders 15 diplomats out of the Cuban embassy in Washington.
SourceNew standard on the Cuban citizenship of those born outside Cuba
A USCIS memorandum vacates Matter of Vazquez; the consular certificate of birth no longer suffices as proof.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works TodayImmigrant visas move to Georgetown
Immigrant visa processing for Cubans moves from Bogotá to the U.S. embassy in Georgetown, Guyana.
SourceUSCIS Havana office closes
USCIS permanently closes its office in the Cuban capital, which had already suspended operations in 2017.
Source"Remain in Mexico" begins
The Migrant Protection Protocols start in San Diego and later extend along the whole border; thousands of Cubans wait for their cases in Mexico.
SourceSingle-entry B-2 visa
The United States cuts the visitor visa for Cubans to three months and one entry, citing reciprocity.
SourceUpdate to AFM chapter 23.11
USCIS updates its guidance and moves to subsection 23.11(h) the sample documents for proving birth in Cuba or Cuban citizenship.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works TodayTitle 42 order
The CDC suspends the entry of certain persons at the border during the pandemic; rapid expulsions begin.
SourceThe year of presence, for citizenship too
USCIS denies naturalization to anyone who obtained residence under the Act after this date without having completed the year of presence before applying.
The law: How the Adjustment Act Works Today
2021-2023
The Great Exodus
Read the chapterTarea Ordenamiento begins
Cuba unifies its monetary system with an official rate of 24 pesos per dollar and begins withdrawing the convertible peso.
SourceThe 11J protests
Thousands of Cubans demonstrate across the country; the crackdown leaves more than 1,400 detained, according to Cubalex.
SourceNicaragua drops its visa requirement for Cubans
Managua becomes the entry point for the land route to the U.S. border.
SourceCuban prosecutors acknowledge 790 defendants
The Attorney General's Office reports that 790 people were charged over the July protests, 55 of them between 16 and 18 years old.
SourceUSCIS notice on Cubans released under § 236
USCIS lets certain arriving aliens released under § 236 (for example, with an I-220A) between 2017 and 2021 refile if they were denied only for failing to prove admission or parole.
The law: Parole, Wet Foot, Dry Foot, and the I-220AMigration talks resume
The United States and Cuba hold their first round of migration talks since 2018.
SourceCFRP interviews resume
USCIS again interviews Cuban Family Reunification Parole beneficiaries in Havana, suspended since 2017.
SourceFiscal year 2022 closes
CBP records 224,607 encounters with Cubans, almost six times the 39,303 of the previous fiscal year.
SourceRecord month for encounters
CBP records 44,079 encounters with Cubans nationwide, 42,654 of them at the southwest border: the highest monthly total in its data since fiscal year 2020.
SourceThe embassy in Havana resumes immigrant visas
For the first time since 2017, the U.S. embassy restarts full immigrant visa processing.
SourceParole process for Cubans (CHNV) begins
With a sponsor in the United States, Cubans can ask for authorization to fly to an interior airport and receive parole for up to two years.
The law: Parole, Wet Foot, Dry Foot, and the I-220AMatter of Cabrera-Fernandez
The BIA holds that release on conditional parole is not parole and does not allow adjustment of status under the Cuban Adjustment Act.
SourceFiscal year 2023 closes
CBP records 200,287 encounters with Cubans for the fiscal year, 142,352 of them at the southwest border.
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2023-2024
Humanitarian Parole
Read the chapterParole announced for four nationalities
The White House extends to Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua the process created for Venezuelans, with a joint cap of 30,000 people a month.
SourceThe notice for Cuba appears in the Federal Register
DHS publishes the rules of the process for Cubans: a supporter, Form I-134A, a flight to an interior airport and parole of up to two years.
SourceThose interdicted at sea are excluded
Anyone interdicted at sea after April 27, 2023, can no longer take part in the process.
SourceEnd of Title 42
The public health expulsion order ends and the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule takes effect.
SourceLottery for Form I-134A
With requests far exceeding capacity, USCIS begins choosing at random half of the forms it reviews each month.
SourceTexas lawsuit dismissed
Judge Drew Tipton concludes that the 21 plaintiff states failed to show that Texas suffered an injury, so they lack standing, and dismisses the case without prejudice.
SourceSecuring the Border takes effect
A presidential proclamation suspends and limits entry across the southern border when encounters exceed a set threshold.
SourceProcess paused
According to the notice with which DHS ended the programs in 2025, they were briefly paused in July to evaluate their vulnerabilities.
SourceResumption with tighter controls
DHS resumes issuing travel authorizations and requires, among other measures, fingerprints from supporters.
SourceNo re-parole
The government announces there will be no new period of parole when the initial two years end.
SourceTwo-year tally
CBP counts about 531,690 arrivals under parole from the four nationalities, 110,240 of them Cubans.
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2025-2026
Closed Doors, Law Still Standing
Read the chapterSection 245(c) closes adjustment to those born in the "adjacent islands"
Public Law 85-700 excludes natives of contiguous countries and of the adjacent islands, a statutory list that includes Cuba, from adjustment of status.
The law: The Text of the Cuban Adjustment ActEnd of CBP One appointments
CBP removes the scheduling function from the app and cancels all pending appointments; Trump orders an end to categorical parole programs.
SourceTermination of CHNV parole
DHS closes the programs for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans and sets April 24 as the end date for existing paroles.
SourceSupreme Court lets the government proceed
The Supreme Court stays the order of Judge Talwani that had halted the termination of CHNV parole.
SourceEntry restrictions on Cubans
Proclamation 10949 takes effect, suspending the entry of Cubans as immigrants and on several classes of visas.
SourceMatter of Roque-Izada
The BIA declines to terminate the proceedings of a Cuban released after crossing the border in 2022 so that he could apply for adjustment before USCIS on the basis of a hypothetical parole.
The law: The Cuban Adjustment Act in the CourtsTrump reaffirms the end of the policy
The reissued NSPM-5 memorandum orders that "wet foot, dry foot" not be reinstated. It does not mention the Cuban Adjustment Act.
The law: The Debate over the Cuban Adjustment ActH.R. 1 becomes law
Trump signs the reconciliation law that creates a $1,000 parole fee and excludes parolees from several benefits, with an exception for Cuban and Haitian entrants.
SourceMatter of Yajure Hurtado
The BIA decides that immigration judges cannot grant bond to people in the country who were never admitted.
SourceUSCIS freezes case files
Memorandum PM-602-0192 places benefit applications, including the I-485, from nationals of the countries in Proclamation 10949 on hold.
SourceEnd of family reunification parole
DHS terminates the Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) Program, created in 2007.
SourceExecutive order on oil for Cuba
Executive Order 14380 authorizes tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba.
SourceThe Eleventh Circuit and the I-220A
The court vacates two BIA orders against Cuban families with I-220A and sends the cases back, without declaring that the I-220A is parole.
SourceCBP One terminations vacated
Judge Burroughs vacates the parole terminations sent by email in April 2025; on April 21 a CBP memorandum opens the way to terminate those paroles again.
SourceUSCIS hold struck down
A federal court in Rhode Island vacates the USCIS hold and re-review policies; the government appeals.
SourceRepeal bill in the Senate
Senator Bernie Moreno introduces S. 4983, which would repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act.
SourceNew public charge rule
DHS removes the list of exemptions from the regulations, while stating that the Cuban Adjustment Act exemption remains in force by statute.
SourceSupreme Court to review mandatory detention
The Supreme Court agrees to decide whether section 235(b)(2)(A) requires detention without bond of people living in the country who were never admitted.
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