CBP One Parole and Denied Cases: A Federal Court Order Lets Class Members Ask USCIS to Reopen Certain Denials With No Filing Fee and No Deadline

What Changed, and When

Four dates in one case carry the whole story. The case is Sileiri Doe v. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:25-cv-12245-ADB, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

April 2025 — the emails. U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent emails to people who had been paroled into the United States after scheduling an appointment through the CBP One mobile application. USCIS describes the message as stating “It is time for you to leave the United States” or similar language, and the parole of the people who received it was terminated.

March 31, 2026 — the emails were vacated. The district court set the April 2025 parole termination emails aside and ordered DHS to reinstate parole for every class member. Per the USCIS alert, the court held that those emails had no legal effect and cannot be used by DHS as a basis for denying an application, as grounds for an admissibility or detention decision, or as the basis for accruing unlawful presence under INA § 212(a)(9)(B) and (C)(i). On April 21, 2026, CBP updated government databases to reinstate the parole periods — and issued new parole termination notices on that date.

September 28, 2026 — the remediation order. The court ordered DHS to remediate certain “adverse consequences” of the April 2025 emails. USCIS defines an adverse consequence, on its Form I-589 page, as any circumstance in which a class member (a) was in or was placed in immigration detention; (b) received an adverse decision on an immigration benefit request; or (c) missed an appointment, interview or check-in with a DHS component.

October 26, 2026 — the instructions. USCIS published a litigation-related update and matching sections on the Form I-290B and Form I-589 pages setting out how a class member may ask the agency to reopen or reconsider — without a filing fee.

Who in Texas This Reaches

The class definition is written in the documents, and it is narrow and checkable. Per USCIS, Sileiri Doe class members are all individuals who:

• scheduled their appointment for entry to the United States using the CBP One app;
• were paroled into the United States between May 16, 2023 and January 19, 2025;
• had that parole terminated in April 2025 pursuant to the CBP email described above; and
• remain in the United States.

Those four facts are documents, not impressions: an appointment confirmation, an I-94 with a parole class of admission and a date, the April 2025 email itself. Whether a particular person is inside or outside that definition is the kind of question a lawyer answers by reading the file.

Texas carries a large share of it. The CBP One appointment system ran at the southwest land ports, and the Texas ports of entry at Brownsville, Hidalgo, Laredo, Eagle Pass and El Paso were among the busiest in the country for these appointments. People paroled in through them settled across the state, with the largest concentrations in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley, and the Texas immigration courts in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and Harlingen handle the removal side of these cases. Nationally, Spanish-speaking communities — Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Haitian and Honduran among them — account for much of the class, which is why Spanish-language outlets reported this update before the general press did.

What This Changes Legally

Six things are worth holding separate, because the agency holds them separate.

• What can be reopened, and when it was decided. Per the USCIS instructions, the process reaches an adverse decision or action USCIS issued between April 1, 2025 and April 21, 2026, where the class member believes the April 2025 parole termination caused it. An adverse decision means a decision on a benefit request that was denied, dismissed, deemed abandoned, administratively closed, rejected, or referred to the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
• There is no filing fee, and no deadline. USCIS states that requests under this process carry no fee, and that there is no deadline for a class member to file one pursuant to the court order. A request that is not urgent is still a request with requirements.
• The form depends on the case. For most benefit types, the USCIS instructions call for Form I-290B with “Sileiri Doe” written at the top, a copy of the CBP email attached, a single checkbox selected in Part 2, and the Appeal box left unselected. For an asylum application on Form I-589, the request goes instead as a written request mailed to the asylum office with jurisdiction over the class member’s current residence, located using the USCIS asylum office locator — not on Form I-290B.
• Parole-based work permits are carved out. The process excludes a request to reopen or reconsider a denial of Form I-765 employment authorization based on parole, category C11. USCIS states that such requests received without a fee will be rejected.
• Appeals are not part of this. The no-fee process covers motions to reopen and to reconsider. Where a benefit type permits an appeal, normal appeal procedures, forms and fees apply.
• Removal proceedings come first, in sequence. Per USCIS, a class member currently in removal proceedings before an immigration judge generally needs those proceedings terminated or dismissed before asking USCIS to reopen or reconsider an asylum application and, in some cases, an adjustment application — with limited exceptions, including for an unaccompanied alien child. If USCIS lacks jurisdiction because the person is in proceedings, the agency states it will reject or deny the request. There is also a jurisdictional line on Form I-485 drawn by 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1).

One limit that matters more than any of the above. USCIS states plainly that the September 28, 2026 order does not reach the new parole termination notices issued to class members on April 21, 2026. Reopening a 2025 denial and holding current parole are two different questions, and a favorable answer to the first does not answer the second. Reopening is also not approval: USCIS says each request is reviewed case by case and may be granted only if the person shows eligibility for the benefit, considered without the April 2025 parole termination.

Nothing above tells any individual what will happen in their case, and no honest page could. What it does say is that a specific window of decisions has been reopened by a court, the instructions for reaching it are written down and public, and the fee that normally stands in the way is not there.

What Kind of Option Might Apply

Nothing on this page is advice about any individual case. These are the kinds of questions immigration attorneys describe working through when a denial may have followed from a parole termination:

• Whether the four class facts are in the file. CBP One appointment, parole date inside May 16, 2023 to January 19, 2025, an April 2025 termination email, and continued presence. Each one is a document, and the email in particular is what USCIS asks to see attached.
• What the denial notice actually said. The reason given, and its date, decide whether the decision sits inside the April 1, 2025 to April 21, 2026 window and whether the parole termination plausibly drove it.
• Which route the case takes. Form I-290B for most benefit types, a written request to the correct asylum office for an asylum application, and neither for a parole-based work permit. Sending a request down the wrong route is how a no-fee filing gets rejected.
• How to explain causation. USCIS asks the request to explain how the April 2025 termination affected eligibility and why the agency should reopen. That is a written argument about a specific record.
• Whether removal proceedings are open, and what to do about them first. Termination or dismissal of proceedings, and the exceptions, are questions for counsel and the immigration court, not for a form.
• What the April 21, 2026 notice means separately. Current parole status, work authorization and any new deadlines sit outside this process and have their own posture.
• What else is in the file. Asylum, adjustment, a family petition, a U or T visa petition, a VAWA self-petition or TPS each have their own timing, and that timing often drives which door to open first.

Many people in this situation have a denial letter they could not afford to challenge, and an email from 2025 they were told to act on. That is an ordinary reason to talk to a lawyer, and talking to one costs nothing through this service.

Why Acting Quickly Can Matter

The court order sets no deadline for a reopening request, and that is unusual and genuinely good news. The deadlines that still run are the ones attached to everything else in the file.

A new parole termination notice issued on April 21, 2026 is outside this process and carries its own consequences. Work authorization has its own validity dates. An asylum application has its own filing and interview posture, and a case in removal proceedings is moving on the immigration court’s calendar regardless of what USCIS does. Evidence also ages: addresses change, employers close, the April 2025 email sits in an inbox that may be abandoned, and a record that is easy to assemble now is harder in a year.

It is best to have an immigration lawyer review the denial notice, the parole paperwork and the current dates while the documents are still in hand and the route is clear. If a lawyer in our network offers an initial consultation, it is free.

Sources

1. Litigation-Related Update: Sileiri Doe Class Members May Request Reopening or Reconsideration of an Adverse Decision Without a Fee, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, released October 26, 2026 — the September 28, 2026 order, the class definition, the April 1, 2025 to April 21, 2026 window, the no-deadline provision and the removal-proceedings sequencing (primary document).
2. Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal or Motion — Information for Sileiri Doe Class Members, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, last reviewed October 26, 2026 — the filing mechanics, the category C11 exclusion, the Form I-589 and Form I-485 carve-outs, and the rejection of appeals filed under this process (primary document).
3. Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal — Sileiri Doe Class Members, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, October 2026 — the definition of “adverse consequence,” the asylum-office route and the unaccompanied-alien-child exception (primary document).
4. 8 U.S.C. § 1182 — Inadmissible aliens, Legal Information Institute — the unlawful-presence provisions at § 212(a)(9)(B) and (C)(i) referenced in the order (statute).
5. USCIS Announces Litigation-Related Update for Sileiri Doe Class Members, American Immigration Lawyers Association, AILA Doc. No. 26102702, October 27, 2026 — independent confirmation of the update and its scope.
6. USCIS allows certain denied immigration cases to be reopened for free following the cancellation of CBP One parole, CiberCuba, October 27, 2026 — independent news coverage of the fee-free reopening process.
7. USCIS grants Sileiri Doe class members fee-free CBP One reconsideration, VisaVerge, October 2026 — independent summary of eligibility and filing steps.
8. Appeals Court Vacates the Order That Blocked Fast-Track Removal of Parolees, this site, August 13, 2026 — the separate litigation over expedited removal of parolees, for context on how these cases differ.