Please note this change: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing to make changes to the collection of information in the Advance Travel Authorization, the document they give you to travel to the United States on the Advance Travel Authorization program Humanitarian parole for Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians and Nicaraguans, reports the site Mi Gente Cuba.

He states that this change “will directly impact the Parole program for citizens of Cuba, VenezuelaHaiti and Nicaragua that they reach the process of applying for travel authorization to fly to the United States.”

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What does the change consist of? It has been suggested adding a new data element related to physical location, including latitude and longitude, at the time biometric information is submitted through the CBP One application.

That means that “when the parole beneficiary scans his face, his geographic location is also sent to the United States.”

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Process for collecting information from the applicant

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According to the federalregister.gov site, CBP One TM collects the following information from the person requesting prior authorization to travel to the United States and apply for parole as part of this process:

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Prior travel authorization

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as reported on the aforementioned website, has instituted new parole procedures to allow certain non-citizens and their qualified immediate family members to seek prior authorization to travel to the United States and receive discretionary release to ask. issued conditionally, on a case-by-case basis.

To support these processes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has developed the Advance Travel Authorization (ATA) feature, which allows individuals to submit information within CBP One TM. application as part of the process.

CBP has set up an ATA collection through emergency approval. Initially, this option was used by Venezuelan citizens and their qualified immediate family members seeking permission to travel to the United States under the parole process established by DHS for Venezuelans. DHS subsequently developed similar parole procedures for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua and their eligible immediate family members.

If prior travel authorization is denied, the individual will not be authorized to travel to the United States to apply for parole under this process. In the event that the user is not authorized to travel under this process, the user may still seek entry into the United States through another process, including by filing an application for parole with USCIS or filing serving in the Department of State (DOS). to obtain a visa.

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Will you link biometric data to USCIS information?

According to the Federal Register site, facial biometric data collected from non-citizens will be linked to biographical information provided by the individual to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

This collection of information, he added, “will facilitate the vetting of non-citizens seeking prior authorization to travel.”

The collection will also serve to provide airlines participating in CBP’s Document Validation (DocVal) program the ability to validate an approved prior authorization for travel, thereby facilitating the generation of a boarding pass for non-citizens without the need to use creating other manual validation processes.

CBP One TM allows the user to capture the required biometric data, currently limited to a live facial photo, and confirm transmission after viewing the captured image.

CBP conducts a background investigation to determine whether the individual poses a security risk to the United States and to determine whether the individual is eligible for prior authorization to travel to the United States and to apply for discretionary parole questions at the port of entry (POE). ).

With information from federalregister.gov and Mi Gente Cuba

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