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Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans: Deadline March 12, 2012
08 Mar 2012 / Temporary Protected Status (TPS)This is a reminder that the USCIS has extended temporary protected status for Salvadorans to March 12, 2012. Here is the USCIS’s prior announcement: WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of El Salvador for an additional 18 months, beginning March 10, 2012, and ending Sept. 9, [...]
ICE Should Stop Deportations of Haitians
10 Mar 2011 / Deportation, Humanitarian Parole, Immigration Enforcement, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
TPS Program for Haitians Successful
20 Jan 2011 / Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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, [...]
HAITI, One Year After Earthquake.
12 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Deportation, Humanitarian Parole, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
Haitian Nationals are Reminded to Register for TPS
22 Dec 2010 / Announcements, Temporary Protected Status (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 [...]
TPS for Somali Nationals Extended for an Additional 18 Months
02 Nov 2010 / Announcements, Employment Authorization, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
Employment Authorization Options for Certain TPS Beneficiaries
08 Oct 2010 / Announcements, Employment Authorization, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
USCIS Extends Registration Period for Haitian TPS
12 Jul 2010 / Announcements, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
Registration Period for Haitian TPS Ends Soon
11 Jun 2010 / Announcements, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
Haitian Earthquake Survivors are Caught in an Immigration Legal Limbo
19 Apr 2010 / Announcements, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)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 [...]
