From USCIS website:
Parole allows an individual who may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission into the United States to be in the United States for a temporary period for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.
Eligibility
You may apply for humanitarian parole if you have a compelling emergency and there is an urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit to allowing you to temporarily enter the United States. Anyone can file an application for humanitarian parole. If you do not have an urgent humanitarian reason for your visit, you must follow the normal visa issuing procedures set by the Department of State.
You cannot use parole to avoid normal visa-issuing procedures or to bypass immigration procedures.
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The language is confusing.
First is states "individual who may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission"
Then,
Secondly states, "Anyone can file an application for humanitarian parole."
but, "If you do not have an urgent humanitarian [need, then]
you must follow the normal visa issuing procedures"
The statements seem to conflict. What does "may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission" mean if anyone with an "urgent humanitarian need can apply?" And if you don't have an urgent humanitarian need, then you "must follow the normal visa issuing procedures." Directing you to follow the "normal visa issuing procedures" if you do not have an urgent humanitarian need implies that you are not "inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission."
Parole allows an individual who may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission into the United States to be in the United States for a temporary period for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.
Eligibility
You may apply for humanitarian parole if you have a compelling emergency and there is an urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit to allowing you to temporarily enter the United States. Anyone can file an application for humanitarian parole. If you do not have an urgent humanitarian reason for your visit, you must follow the normal visa issuing procedures set by the Department of State.
You cannot use parole to avoid normal visa-issuing procedures or to bypass immigration procedures.
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The language is confusing.
First is states "individual who may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission"
Then,
Secondly states, "Anyone can file an application for humanitarian parole."
but, "If you do not have an urgent humanitarian [need, then]
you must follow the normal visa issuing procedures"
The statements seem to conflict. What does "may be inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission" mean if anyone with an "urgent humanitarian need can apply?" And if you don't have an urgent humanitarian need, then you "must follow the normal visa issuing procedures." Directing you to follow the "normal visa issuing procedures" if you do not have an urgent humanitarian need implies that you are not "inadmissible or otherwise ineligible for admission."