U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an October 26 litigation-related update that members of the Sileiri Doe class may now ask the agency to reopen or reconsider certain adverse decisions without paying a filing fee, where the decision may have been affected by the federal government's April 2025 termination of parole for people who entered the United States after scheduling appointments through the CBP One mobile application. USCIS said the process follows a September 28, 2026 order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Sileiri Doe v. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:25-cv-12245-ADB.
Source: USCIS litigation-related update (Oct 26, 2026), via INUS News
The class, as USCIS and the court define it, covers people who meet all four conditions: they scheduled an appointment to enter the United States through the CBP One app; they were paroled into the country between May 16, 2023 and January 19, 2025; their parole was terminated in April 2025 through an email stating, in the words USCIS quotes, “It is time for you to leave the United States,” or similar language; and they remain in the United States.
Source: USCIS litigation-related update (Oct 26, 2026), via INUS News
For this process, USCIS defines an adverse decision as an agency action that denied, dismissed, deemed abandoned, administratively closed, rejected or referred a benefit request to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and the original decision generally must have been issued between April 1, 2025 and April 21, 2026. The fee-free option does not apply to a request for employment authorization based on parole, the agency said.
Source: USCIS litigation-related update (Oct 26, 2026), via INUS News
The fee waiver answers a gap the court's first ruling left open, Immigration Analytics explained in an October 27 analysis: when Judge Allison Burroughs vacated the terminations on March 31, 2026, parole was restored on paper, but benefit decisions made while people were treated as having no parole stayed in place — and the normal route to challenge such a decision, a motion to reopen or reconsider on Form I-290B, normally requires a fee. The September 28 order addresses those leftover consequences; the ruling did not reopen anything on its own, so class members have to file.
Source: Immigration Analytics
USCIS stressed the limits. The agency will review each request individually rather than granting relief automatically based only on class membership, class members must still show eligibility for the underlying benefit without considering the April 2025 parole termination, and the update establishes no filing deadline. The process covers reopening and reconsideration only — it does not include appeals, and ordinary appeal deadlines still apply. USCIS also said the April 2025 emails had no legal effect, but that the September 28 order does not invalidate the new parole termination notices CBP issued on April 21, 2026, after restoring parole in government databases.
Source: USCIS litigation-related update (Oct 26, 2026), via INUS News
How to file depends on the benefit: USCIS directs asylum applicants to the instructions on the Form I-589 webpage, and other applicants to the Form I-290B webpage and its special instructions for Sileiri Doe class members, explaining how the April 2025 termination affected eligibility. People currently in removal proceedings face an extra step — USCIS said they must generally have those proceedings terminated or dismissed by an immigration judge before asking USCIS to reopen or reconsider an asylum or, subject to limited exceptions, an adjustment-of-status application. This report is general information, not legal advice; affected readers should read the USCIS instructions and consult a qualified immigration attorney or accredited representative.
Source: USCIS litigation-related update (Oct 26, 2026), via INUS News