The National Lawyers’ Guild has answered ICE’s request for feedback on it’s policy to resume deporations of Haitian nationals: On Monday, March 7, 2011 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested feedback on its policy to resume deportations/removals to Haiti. The deadline for comments is March 11 to email your comments to ICE. The National Immigration [...]

The New York Times  reported today that the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) received over 53,000 applications from Haitians seeking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of which, the agency approved a majority of those applications. Tuesday, January 18, 2011 was the deadline for Haitians to apply for TPS.  The program granted benefits to certain Haitians that were in the U.S. on the day of the earthquake (January 12, [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported that today, January 12 is the one (1) year anniversary that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed over 230,000 people and left about 1,000,000 homeless in Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country. In an effort to help Haitian nationals both in the U.S. and in Haiti, President Obama and his administration acted quickly and extended benefits such as Humanitarian Parole  and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds Haitian nationals that the deadline to register for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is January 18, 2011. Haitian nationals that have lived in the United States on or before January 12, 2010 and, who meet other eligibility requirements, are the only ones that are eligible to submit an application for TPS and must do so [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) have been extended for an additional 18 months for eligible Somali nationals from the current expiration date of March 17, 2011, through the new expiration date of Sept. 17, 2012. During the past year, both the Secretaries of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State (DOS) have [...]

The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published an alert today informing foreign nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua who have re-registered for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), about how they can prove their continued eligibility to work until their new employment authorization cards arrive. While these foreign nationals wait for their new employment authorization cards to arrive, they can provide their current cards as [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that eligible Haitian nationals have an additional 6 months to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).  The new registration period ends on January 18, 2011. Since January 19, 2010, the day Haitian nationals were authorized to pursue TPS, DHS officials have heard from Haitian community leaders and their supporters that Haitians needed additional time to pursue their TPS applications.  Many [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that to date, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) had received more than 50,000 applications from Haitian nationals who registered for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).  The registration period ends on July 20, 2010 and is open only to undocumented Haitians who were already residing in the U.S. on January 12, 2010, the day the earthquake ravaged that [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that earlier this month Mackenson Luberice and James Dorinville, survivors of the January 12th earthquake that ravaged their native Haiti and were brought to the U.S. as part of a rescue mission, were released from U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) custody. In the days following the earthquake, the U.S. government announced a stop on all deportations to Haiti until [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to call on eligible Haitians to submit their applications for Temporary Protected Status  (TPS). As a reminder to eligible Haitians, applications must be submitted before July 20, 2010. The USCIS reported that as of April 9, 2010 about 44,500 applications have been received, but about 5,000 of them have been returned to the applicants [...]