As part of President Obama’s November 2014 executive action immigration reform, a new parole program is being implemented by the Department of Homeland Security to allow family members of Filipino WWII veterans to be paroled into the United States. This initiative will allow family members of Filipino and Filipino-American WWII veterans to enter the United States temporarily for family reunification purposes as well as to administer care and support to their aging family members.  This period of parole into the United States is a discretionary, humanitarian form of immigration admission that does not confer family members with a path to residing permanently in the country.

The official date that this parole program is set to take effect has yet to be announced.  However, it is estimated that approximately 6,000 veterans in the United States will be able to take advantage of this program.