TPS Extension Deadlines for Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua

Nick Miroff writes in the Washington Post about upcoming extension deadlines for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and certain Central Americans.  (Country-specific deadlines available on the USCIS TPS page).  TPS is statutorily authorized for situations involving civil war, natural disasters and other temporary or emergency conditions abroad, but the specific countries and time periods for which TPS is extended are decided by DHS. 

As Miroff explains:  “Permission to stay must be periodically renewed by the Department of Homeland Security, and in the coming weeks, the agency will decide the fate of about 195,000 Salvadorans, 57,000 Hondurans, 50,000 Haitians and 2,550 Nicaraguans. Once the protections lapse, those immigrants would be subject to deportation.  Their predicament is not as well known as the “Dreamers” who have been allowed to stay under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that Trump is canceling. But an end to TPS protections could have wide-ranging consequences, especially in cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Washington, where many of the beneficiaries and their U.S.-born children reside.”

-JKoh