The CBP One app, used by immigrants to schedule appointments and apply for parole to enter the U.S., has been shut down by CBP. The move affects thousands of migrants who were relying on the app to seek legal entry.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday afternoon that the CBP One app would no longer permit immigrants outside the U.S. border to schedule appointments with U.S. customs officers at ports of entry on the southern border or submit information for permission to fly on commercial flights into the country from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Effective January 20, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, the functionalities of CBP One that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry are no longer available. All appointments have been canceled, according to a post on Instagram. Immigrants who had scheduled appointments were devastated to learn that they had been canceled after waiting for weeks to months to see a customs officer. A reporter in the northern Mexico city of Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas, said individuals discovered their 1:00 p.m. local time appointments were no longer on the books. Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 p.m. CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down, and those appointments are no longer valid.The Biden-Harris administration added two functions to the app in early 2023 that allowed immigrants to apply from outside the country for admission or to meet with a U.S. customs officer. The move was intended to provide immigrants with a way to seek admission without illegally crossing the southern border between ports of entry. However, Republicans have criticized it as a backdoor to admit hundreds of thousands of people into the country in less than two years. The CBP One app permitted immigrants from four countries, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, to apply to enter the U.S. on parole, which allowed an individual to remain for two years and receive a work permit. Recipients were required to have a sponsor in the U.S. and pay for their international commercial flight. Since the process was fully rolled out in January 2023, more than half a million people have been admitted.The app’s second function allowed immigrants in Mexico to schedule an appointment at a land port of entry on the southern border to meet with U.S. customs officers. Up to 1,450 appointments could be scheduled daily, for a total of more than 43,000 per month. Immigrants who scheduled appointments waited months to be seen at one of eight ports of entry used for appointments and were overwhelmingly admitted. Former President Donald Trump, who has been a vocal critic of the CBP One app, called for its termination in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on September 15. He stated, “As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration).”The closure of the CBP One app has left many immigrants in Mexico uncertain about their future plans and hoping to secure an appointment on the long wait list, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council in Washington.
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