Paid bond yet he’s still in a detention center

Hi I hope this is the right place to ask this.

I have a father who was taken by ICE nearly two months. It has been a long two months, but luckily the lawyer we hired was able to get him bond.

I went to the website, https://cebonds.ice.gov, posted the bond, signed the I-352 contract, wired the money, and uploaded the bond payment receipt. All of these steps have a green check marks.

Right now it says this:

Your current status Your I-352 contract has been approved. The release process for the associated alien will proceed. (Status, date : 12/8/2025)

It was approved around 12:50 pm on the 8th of December.

Usually, they would release the inmate a few hours later. Yet now it’s the 9th, 6pm pst, and absolutely nothing. We have called the detention center he is held in, and they said they have nothing in their system saying he is to be released. Our lawyer has contacted them and they have not told them anything either. He’s still in there because he has called us at 3pm, and still no news.

I called the number for their field office and went to the facility they are holding my dad in person. Neither were very helpful.

Am I missing something? Is there anything else I can do? Or do I just have to wait until they actually do the paperwork to process his bond?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Posted Dec 10, 2025, 2:57 AM UTC

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