Sources from Correo have alerted a law office in Miami about a possible fraud in the application for the return of work permits revoked after the cancellation of humanitarian parole, which puts 530,000 immigrants at risk of deportation.
According to their explanation, a postal official claims to have "turned away many people regarding the return of the work permit," because the address to which the card should be returned raises questions.
"My paralegal came back very scared because the post office lady told her that she is not sending any of those work permits because they don't trust anyone. She has told everyone to go back with their work permit to where they came from and consult a lawyer because the address is suspicious," they stated in remarks to CiberCuba.
Consulted by a viewer of this platform, immigration attorney Liudmila Marcelo suggests exercising caution, advising to wait fifteen days before returning the card as a precaution due to the ongoing changes in immigration decisions, and to first call the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to confirm the address to which the card should be sent.
"Letters are certainly arriving asking for the return of the work permit. None of my clients have received it. I would like to check with some of my clients who have received the letter regarding the return of the work permit because I want to read it. So far, I've only seen people posting about it, but I haven't actually read one. Let's see, you paid 520 USD for that work permit. That work permit was sent to you on a card. Additionally, you need to send that work permit back once it is known to be revoked. In my opinion, that's completely illogical. I haven't read the letter, and I don't even know if it will be prepaid postage, so you won't even have to pay for the shipping. Imagine that, in addition to having paid 520 USD for that work permit, you have to put it in an envelope and pay the Post Office to send it back to USCIS. Orders must be followed. I mean, if USCIS tells you to return the work permit, then I would return it, but I would wait," said Liudmila Marcelo in statements to CiberCuba.
"I would wait a couple of weeks to see because I really paid for that work permit. I'm not going to use it, because I can't use it, because it was revoked. But now you're going to force me to pay again to return the work permit to you," he added.
"If there's no other option left, then it has to be returned. But I always wait. I don't like to be one of the first people to follow instructions. Let's see what happens. Let's see if in the coming days the judge makes the ruling and we find out what happened. But for now, I would leave it here. Yes, I am going to return it, but give me some time. I will return it as soon as I can go to the post office, as soon as I can go out, because it's not as if I'm going to receive the letter and head to the post office to send it the next day; everything has its time in life," she concluded.
On June 12, 2025, the DHS immediately revoked the humanitarian parole CHNV, also canceling the work permits of more than 530,000 people, including thousands of Cubans. On March 28, 2025, three pro-immigrant organizations —CHIRLA, UndocuBlack, and CASA— filed a federal lawsuit in the District Court of Washington D.C., arguing that the mass revocation violates due process and requires case-by-case evaluation before ordering expedited deportations. The litigation is ongoing, with hearings in lower courts.
"The legality of the mass revocation has not yet been decided. What was decided was regarding the government's authority to suspend it without waiting for the outcome of the lawsuit, which is why it has been canceled. This Wednesday, motions were introduced by these same organizations for the judge assigned to the lawsuit to expedite the ruling given the severe harm that the cancellation of the parole and work permits has caused to the beneficiaries," explains attorney Marcelo.
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