TPS for some citizens of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras and Nepal extended until at least October 2021.
The so-called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some citizens of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal was extended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until at least October of 2021.
Temporary Protected Status benefits, which were set to expire early next month for an estimated 400,000 immigrants from Haiti, Nepal and Central America, will be extended by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nine months.
The extension means that the TPS beneficiaries, including nationals of Sudan as well as Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, can continue to legally live and work in the United States for the next nine months and — for now — avoid being placed in deportation proceedings, which could have begun as early as March after their documents expired on Jan. 4, 2021.
“I am excited, elated,” said Marleine Bastien, the founder and executive director of Miami-based Family Action Network Movement, or FANM. Bastien’s organization is among several that sued the Trump administration after it canceled the program.
Bastien said she has been getting an unprecedented number of calls from frantic TPS holders from all over the U.S., seeking answers about whether they would lose their right to temporarily live and work in the country as of January. At the same time, they complained they faced the threat of losing their jobs, as employers pressured them about their soon-to-expire work authorization.
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