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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[OMB Control Number 1615–0017] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Application for Advance 

Permission To Enter as Nonimmigrant 

[Pursuant to Section 212(d)(3)(A)(ii) of 

the INA, Section 212(d)(13) of the INA, 

or Section 212(d)(14) of the INA, Form 

I–192; Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection 

ACTION: 60-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment upon this 

proposed revision of a currently 

approved collection of information. In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the 

information collection notice is 

published in the Federal Register to 

obtain comments regarding the nature of 

the information collection, the 

categories of respondents, the estimated 

burden (i.e., the time, effort, and 

resources used by the respondents to 

respond), the estimated cost to the 

respondent, and the actual information 

collection instruments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 60 days until 

February 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: All submissions received 

must include the OMB Control Number 

1615–0017 in the subject box, the 

agency name and Docket ID USCIS– 

2008–0009. To avoid duplicate 

submissions, please use only one of the 

following methods to submit comments: 

(1) Online. Submit comments via the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site at 

www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID 

number USCIS–2008–0009; 

(2) Email. Submit comments to 

USCISFRComment@uscis.dhs.gov; 

(3) Mail. Submit written comments to 

DHS, USCIS, Office of Policy and 

Strategy, Chief, Regulatory Coordination 

Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20529–2140. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments 

Regardless of the method used for 

submitting comments or material, all 

submissions will be posted, without 

change, to the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, 

and will include any personal 

information you provide. Therefore, 

submitting this information makes it 

public. You may wish to consider 

limiting the amount of personal 

information that you provide in any 

voluntary submission you make to DHS. 

DHS may withhold information 

provided in comments from public 

viewing that it determines may impact 

the privacy of an individual or is 

offensive. For additional information, 

please read the Privacy Act notice that 

is available via the link in the footer of 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Note: The address listed in this notice 

should only be used to submit comments 

concerning this information collection. 

Please do not submit requests for individual 

case status inquiries to this address. If you 

are seeking information about the status of 

your individual case, please check ‘‘My Case 

Status’’ online at: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/ 

Dashboard.do, or call the USCIS National 

Customer Service Center at 1–800–375–5283. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

should address one or more of the 

following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Application for Advance Permission to 

Enter as Nonimmigrant [Pursuant to 

Section 212(d)(3)(A)(ii) of the INA, 

Section 212(d)(13) of the INA, or 

Section 212(d)(14) of the INA. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the DHS 

sponsoring the collection: I–192; USCIS. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

households. This form is provided by 

the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services (USCIS) as a means for certain 

inadmissible nonimmigrant aliens to 

apply for permission to enter the United 

States. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The estimated total number of 

respondents for the information 

collection I–192 is 10,448 and the 

estimated hour burden per response is 

.5 hours. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total estimated annual 

hour burden associated with this 

collection is 5,224 hours. 

(7) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in cost) associated with the 

collection: There is no estimated annual 

cost burden associated with this 

collection of information. 

If you need a copy of the information 

collection instrument with instructions, 

or additional information, please visit 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal site at: 

http://www.regulations.gov. We may 

also be contacted at: USCIS, Office of 

Policy and Strategy, Regulatory 

Coordination Division, 20 

Massachusetts Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20529–2140, 

Telephone number 202–272–8377. 

Dated: December 12, 2014. 

Laura Dawkins, 

Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[CIS No. 2547–14; DHS Docket No. USCIS– 

2007–0043] 

Notice of Changes to Application 

Procedures for the Cuban Family 

Reunification Parole Program 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) 

announces that as of February 17, 2015, 

USCIS will begin requiring the filing of 

an Application for Travel Document 

(Form I–131) and payment of its 

associated fee or approval of a fee 

waiver request from individuals who are 

applying for the Cuban Family 

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1See INA sec. 212(d)(5)(A), 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)(A) 

(permitting parole of certain aliens into the United 

States, as a matter of discretion and on a case-bycase basis, for urgent humanitarian reasons or 

significant public benefit); see also 8 CFR 212.5(c) 

& (d) (discretionary authority for establishing 

conditions of parole and for terminating parole). 

Reunification Parole (CFRP) Program on 

behalf of a beneficiary in Cuba. No form 

or fee is currently required for the CFRP 

Program. Under the CFRP Program, 

USCIS offers certain beneficiaries of 

approved family-based immigrant 

petitions the opportunity to be paroled 

into the United States to apply for 

lawful permanent resident status, rather 

than remain in Cuba waiting for their 

immigrant visas to become available. 

The purpose of the program is to 

expedite family reunification through 

safe, legal, and orderly channels of 

migration to the United States and to 

discourage irregular and inherently 

dangerous maritime migration. This 

notice is intended to: Make the CFRP 

Program application and adjudication 

processes consistent with those for most 

other requests for parole filed on behalf 

of individuals outside the United States; 

facilitate centralized filing and more 

standardized processing of parole 

applications; and, recover costs incurred 

by USCIS to adjudicate and provide 

CFRP Program travel documents. This 

notice will affect only those individuals 

who receive a written invitation to 

apply to the CFRP Program from the 

Department of State’s National Visa 

Center (NVC) which is dated on or after 

February 17, 2015. This notice will not 

affect existing CFRP Program 

beneficiaries or individuals who 

received a notice of program eligibility 

from the NVC predating the publication 

of this notice and who submitted to the 

NVC the complete documentation 

required to apply for the program prior 

to February 17, 2015 (referred to as 

‘grandfathered’ cases). Grandfathered 

cases will continue to be processed 

without form or fee. 

DATES: 

• As of December 18, 2014, the NVC 

will no longer issue CFRP Program 

eligibility notices inviting eligible 

petitioners to opt in to the program 

without the required form and fee. 

• On or after February 17, 2015, the 

NVC will begin sending to eligible 

petitioners a written invitation to apply 

to the CFRP Program using the required 

form and fee or request for fee waiver. 

• A petitioner who received a CFRP 

Program eligibility notice dated prior to 

December 18, 2014 must submit to the 

NVC the complete required 

documentation to apply for the CFRP 

Program before February 17, 2015 to be 

grandfathered and eligible for 

processing without a form and fee. 

• A petitioner who received a CFRP 

Program eligibility notice before 

December 18, 2014 who fails to submit 

to the NVC the complete required 

documentation to apply for the CFRP 

Program before February 17, 2015 

cannot apply for the program until the 

petitioner receives a written invitation 

to apply to the CFRP Program using a 

required form and fee. 

• Any person who applies for the 

CFRP Program after February 17, 2015 

must submit a form and fee as 

prescribed in this notice and after 

receipt of a written invitation to apply 

from the NVC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pilar 

Peralta Mihalko, Chief, International 

Adjudications Support Branch, 

International Operations Division, U.S. 

Citizenship and Immigration Services, 

Department of Homeland Security, 1585 

S. Manchester Avenue, Anaheim, CA 

92802, Telephone (714) 808–8133. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background on CFRP Program 

The CFRP Program was announced on 

November 15, 2007, via Federal 

Register notice (72 FR 65588). The 

notice explained that, in accordance 

with the U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords, 

the United States committed to ensuring 

that total legal migration to the United 

States from Cuba would be a minimum 

of 20,000 Cubans each year, not 

including immediate relatives of U.S. 

citizens (USC). See Joint Communique ́

on Migration, U.S.-Cuba (Sept. 9, 1994) 

(known together with the May 2, 1995 

Joint Statement as the U.S.-Cuba 

Migration Accords (hereinafter 

‘‘Migration Accords’’)). Through the 

CFRP the United States offers a safe, 

legal, and orderly means of migrating to 

the United States. 

The CFRP Program addressed two 

constraints posed by the array of 

migration programs that existed at the 

time of the program’s creation, which 

had limited the ability of the United 

States to effectively promote safe, legal, 

and orderly migration as an alternative 

to inherently dangerous maritime 

crossings. First, with the exception of 

immediate relatives of USCs (i.e., 

spouse, unmarried child(ren) under 21 

years of age, and parents), see 

Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) 

sec. 201(b)(2)(A)(i), 8 U.S.C. 

1151(b)(2)(A)(i), the number of familybased immigrant visas that are available 

in any given year is limited by statute, 

see INA secs. 201(c), 202(a), 203, 8 

U.S.C. 1151(c), 1152(a), 1153. These 

statutory limits have resulted in long 

waiting periods before family members 

remaining in Cuba may join the USC 

and lawful permanent resident (LPR) 

family members who petitioned for 

them. Since 1998, the Cuban 

Government has not permitted a new 

registration for the Special Program for 

Cuban Migration, the parole lottery 

initiated by the United States in support 

of the Migration Accords. Without this 

pool of individuals, there was a 

deficiency in the number of Cubans 

potentially eligible for travel to the 

United States. 

Under the CFRP Program, USCIS 

exercises its discretionary parole 

authority to permit eligible Cuban 

nationals to come to the United States 

to join their family members.1 Granting 

parole to eligible aliens under the CFRP 

Program serves the significant public 

benefit of enabling the United States to 

meet its commitments under the 

Migration Accords. It also lessens the 

perceived need for family members left 

behind in Cuba to make irregular and 

inherently dangerous attempts to arrive 

in the United States through unsafe 

maritime crossings, thereby 

discouraging alien smuggling as a means 

to enter the United States. Whether to 

parole a particular alien remains, 

however, a case-by-case, discretionary 

determination. 

II. Background on Requiring a Form 

and a Fee 

USCIS has not previously required a 

form or collected a fee for parole 

requests under the CFRP Program. As a 

result, USCIS has not used a 

standardized USCIS form, and has not 

required family members or 

beneficiaries to cover any of the costs 

associated with the benefit provided to 

them under the CFRP Program. The INA 

provides that USCIS may collect fees at 

a level that will ensure recovery of the 

full costs of adjudication and 

naturalization services, including 

services provided without charge to 

asylum applicants and certain other 

immigration applicants. INA sec. 

286(m), 8 U.S.C. 1356(m). Operating 

expenses for the CFRP Program have 

been fully funded through use of fee 

revenue from other immigration benefit 

applicants. To bring CFRP Program 

parole requests in line with the majority 

of other parole requests filed on behalf 

of individuals outside of the United 

States, USCIS will now require the 

submission of a completed Form I–131, 

Application for Travel Document, and 

the fee required by USCIS fee 

regulations at 8 CFR 103.7(b)(1)(i)(M) for 

any CFRP Program application filed on 

or after February 17, 2015. Applicants 

for the CFRP Program must complete 

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and file the Form I–131 in effect at the 

time of filing—and follow any 

additional instructions included in the 

program eligibility notice they receive 

from either USCIS or the NVC in 

submitting their application. A 

completed Form I–131 and fee or fee 

waiver request must be filed for each 

individual on whose behalf parole is 

being requested. 

III. Participation in the CFRP Program 

and Application Process 

USCIS offers participation in the 

CFRP Program to Cuban nationals who 

reside in Cuba and who are the 

beneficiaries—including any eligible 

spouse and child accompanying or 

following-to-join the principal 

beneficiaries (see INA sec. 203(d), 8 

U.S.C. 1153(d))—of an approved Form 

I–130, Petition for Alien Relative, but 

for whom an immigrant visa is not 

immediately available. Participation in 

the CFRP Program is voluntary. 

Prior to the date of this notice, the 

NVC mailed written notice to eligible 

U.S.-based U.S.C. and LPR petitioners 

with approved Forms I–130 indicating 

their beneficiaries’ eligibility to 

participate in the CFRP Program. The 

notice invited an interested petitioner to 

submit to the NVC a copy of their 

approved Form I–130 and other 

supporting documents to opt in to the 

CFRP Program and begin the process of 

requesting parole. No formal application 

form or fee was required to apply. As of 

the date of this notice, the NVC will no 

longer issue CFRP Program eligibility 

notices that do not require a form and 

fee to apply. Petitioners with CFRP 

Program eligibility notices dated prior to 

December 18, 2014 must submit to the 

NVC the complete required 

documentation to opt in to the CFRP 

Program prior to February 17, 2015 in 

order to be grandfathered and 

considered for processing without a 

form and fee. 

On or after February 17, 2015, 

participation in the CFRP Program will 

be predicated on submission of a Form 

I–131 and the requisite fee(s) or request 

for fee waiver that has been approved by 

USCIS. A U.S.C. or LPR petitioner in the 

United States with an approved Form I– 

130 that was filed on behalf of a 

beneficiary relative residing in Cuba, for 

whom a visa is not anticipated to be 

available during the CFRP processing 

time, will receive a written invitation 

from the NVC regarding the 

beneficiary’s eligibility to participate in 

the CFRP Program and the procedures 

for requesting parole, if desired. The 

notice will instruct the recipient on how 

to file a completed Form I–131 and 

submit the required fee(s) or fee waiver 

request to apply for the program. USCIS 

will reject a request for parole under the 

CFRP Program submitted without the 

required form and fee(s) or a request for 

a fee waiver. 

USCIS officers or Department of State 

consular officers will interview 

qualified beneficiaries in Havana to 

verify their eligibility for the program. 

Beneficiaries may also have their 

biometrics collected. If USCIS exercises 

its discretion to authorize parole under 

the CFRP Program, USCIS or the 

Department of State will issue the 

necessary travel documents to the 

beneficiary in Cuba. These travel 

documents will enable the beneficiary 

to travel safely to the United States and 

seek parole by U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) at a U.S. port-of-entry 

to join his or her family member. A 

beneficiary who is paroled into the 

United States would then be eligible to 

apply to adjust status to that of lawful 

permanent resident after he or she has 

been physically present in the United 

States for one year as provided by the 

Cuban Adjustment Act, Pub. L. 89–732, 

80 Stat. 1161 (8 U.S.C. 1255 note), or 

once the beneficiary’s visa becomes 

available, whichever comes first. 

Participation in the CFRP Program is 

not available to aliens who qualify as 

‘‘immediate relatives’’ under section 

201(b)(2)(A)(i) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 

1151(b)(2)(A)(i). Such aliens may seek 

immigrant visas for travel to the United 

States immediately upon the approval of 

the immigrant visa petitions filed on 

their behalf. 

For eligible beneficiaries who are not 

‘‘immediate relatives,’’ if an immigrant 

visa becomes available while the Form 

I–131 is pending, the beneficiary will be 

able to proceed with the parole process 

to completion, if desired. Alternatively, 

the beneficiary can choose to pursue 

immigrant visa processing, which will 

require payment of associated fees but 

will enable the individual to apply for 

admission to the United States as an 

immigrant, if found eligible by the 

Department of State for the visa and 

admissible by CBP at the port of entry. 

IV. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, 

all Departments are required to submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval, any 

new reporting requirements they 

impose. The Application for Travel 

Document, Form I–131, has been 

approved by OMB and assigned OMB 

control number 1615–0013. USCIS is 

making no changes to the Form in 

connection with the CFRP Program and 

this notice; however, USCIS estimates 

that this notice will result in an annual 

average of 13,000–15,000 Form I–131 

filings per year. The current OMBapproved estimate of the number of 

annual respondents filing a Form I–131 

is 940,671. USCIS has overestimated the 

number of individuals who will use this 

form to apply for immigration benefits 

to the degree that additional 

respondents who will use it to file for 

the CFRP Program will be covered 

within the 940,671 estimated. USCIS is 

not changing the collection instrument 

or increasing its burden estimates in 

connection with this notice. Therefore, 

USCIS is not publishing a notice under 

the PRA or making revisions to the 

currently approved burden for OMB 

control number 1615–0013. 

Additional information about the 

CFRP Program and the application 

process will be posted on the USCIS 

Web site at www.uscis.gov. 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Leo ́n Rodrı ́guez 

Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[CIS No. 2548–14; DHS Docket No. USCIS– 

2014–0013] 

Implementation of Haitian Family 

Reunification Parole Program 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

implementation of U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Haitian 

Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) 

Program. Under this program, USCIS 

offers certain Haitian beneficiaries of 

family-based immigrant petitions 

approved on or before December 18, 

2014 an opportunity to receive a 

discretionary grant of parole to enter the 

United States up to approximately two 

years before their immigrant visas 

become available, rather than remain in 

Haiti awaiting availability of their 

immigrant visas. The program is 

intended to expedite family 

reunification through safe, legal, and 

orderly channels of migration to the 

United States, increase existing avenues 

for legal migration from Haiti, and help 

Haiti continue to recover from the 

devastation and damage suffered in the 

January 12, 2010 earthquake. 

DATES: 

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