The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) as part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced this past weekend that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is now authorized for Haitian nationals. The regulations will be published in the Federal Register as soon as possible.
The eligibility requirements for Haitian TPS are the following:
- Be a national of Haiti, or a person without nationality who last habitually resided in Haiti;
- Have continuously resided in the U.S. before January 12, 2010;
- Have been continuously physically present in the U.S. since the date of the Federal Register Notice publication, and
- Meet certain immigrant admissibility requirements, and other TPS eligibility requirements.
We at Pappas & Associates, P.A. are glad that the government acted swiftly and granted Haitian nationals the TPS they so desperately needed in this time of crisis.
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