Immigration Parole Reform Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill rewrites the rules for immigration parole, which lets people enter the U.S. temporarily without a visa. It bans the government from granting parole to entire classes of people and requires every decision to be made on an individual basis.
• The bill narrows the reasons someone can be paroled into the country to a short list of urgent humanitarian situations, like life-threatening medical emergencies, organ donation, attending a close family member's funeral, or helping with a law enforcement matter.
• Special exceptions are carved out for spouses and children of active-duty military members who are in the U.S. without lawful status and have an approved family petition, as well as for certain Cuban nationals under existing U.S.-Cuba migration agreements.
• Most people granted parole would be banned from working in the U.S. and limited to stays of one year or less, with only one possible extension. Only military family parolees and Cuban parolees could get work authorization.
• The bill creates a new right to sue: any person, state, or local government that loses more than $1,000 because the federal government fails to follow these restrictions can bring a lawsuit in federal court.
• People who were paroled before January 1, 2023, keep their original parole terms. Anyone who filed a parole or advance parole application before the bill becomes law would be judged under the old rules.

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