The Government of President Joe Biden resumed this Thursday, August 29, the program of words humanitarian aid program that admits up to 360,000 people a year from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to live and work in the United States.
In early August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked the words humanitarian to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in immigration processes.
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The United States identified that sponsors repeatedly used social security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers on multiple forms. It was discovered that 100,948 I-134A forms were filled by only 3,218 people.
Additionally, 24 Social Security numbers belonged to deceased individuals. About 100 physical addresses were reused on more than 19,000 forms, and one phone number appeared on more than 2,000 applications. Finally, 2,839 forms were found with nonexistent ZIP codes.
On Thursday, the DHS announced in a statement that after an internal investigation, new measures were adopted to strengthen the “integrity” of the program and thus be able to resume authorizing travel to admitted migrants.
Stricter measures
The DHS announced new criminal background checks for sponsors in the United States, which will include fingerprinting to verify criminal records, as well as control measures to prevent them from submitting applications “in series.”
The agency will conduct in-depth investigations into financial records to identify fraudulent sponsor profiles and strengthen review methods to identify serial application submission trends.
