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*Updated on 12/11/2019 to correct posting from Ecuador to El Salvador.* El Salvador was originally designated for TPS in 2001 due a series of very destructive earthquakes. The Trump Administration had originally planned to end TPS for El Salvadorians on January 2, 2020. However, the Trump Administration announced on Monday that it agreed to extend the TPS work permits for El Salvadorians through January 4, 2021 as well as that it will give protected El Salvadorians an additi

Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 sponsored by Rep

Due to the continuing existence of an ongoing armed conflict (and "extraordinary and temporary conditions") in Somalia, the U.S. D

Regrettably on May 4, 2018, the Trump Administration announced through the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, that it would be ending TPS designation for Honduras. And, in a showing of extreme generosity, the U.S. government added that it is willing to give Hondurans with TPS status an additional 18 months to leave the U.S.- until January 5, 2020. Of course, those Hondurans with TPS who are eligible to remain in the U.S. for the 18 additi

Yesterday, January 31, 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that Syria's TPS designation would be extended for 18 months (i.e., until September 30, 2019). The U.S. government specifically considered the original reasons for granting Syria TPS- armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions- and whether these conditions continue to exist in deciding to extend the TPS designation. There are about 7,000 people who receive Syrian TPS. To be eligi

The Trump Administration announced today, Monday, January 8, 2018, that the TPS designation will end for El Salvador despite the President of El Salvador's request that the country continue to receive the designation. This decision will affect approximately 200,000 people who will be lose their TPS on September 9, 2019. El Salvador originally received TPS designation in March 2001 after being hit by two devastating earthquakes. Per the announcement on the U.S. Department o

Today, the Trump Administration announced that Haiti will lose its TPS designation. This decision will affect approximately 60,000 people with their TPS "status" ultimately ending on July 22, 2019. Haiti was originally designated for TPS in 2010 after the country was devastated by an earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of inhabitants dead, displaced more than a million of people, and led to an outbreak of cholera. Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had

In case you are not aware, the Trump administration recently announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would end for those people from Nicaragua on January 5, 2018 and that TPS for those people from Honduras will only be renewed until July 2018. An announcement regarding TPS for those people from Haiti is expected by Thanksgiving 2017 as this designation is set to expire on January 22, 2018. In light of these recent developments, several members of Congress (Rep. Yvett