Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, was granted for Salvadorans after a series of earthquakes in 2001. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the program, will terminate it for ...

Since 1990, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has allowed migrants from countries with unsafe conditions to reside and work legally in the United States. As of June 2025, seventeen countries have ...

A Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation allows immigrants from certain countries that are experiencing extraordinary and temporary conditions to remain in the United States until they can ...

The move apparently reverses a decision made in 2018 to end TPS for Salvadorans. The Trump administration also has tried to end TPS for people from Sudan, Haiti, and Nicaragua, among others.

While the TPS programs for El Salvador, Nicaragua, Nepal and Honduras are technically set to expire on Dec. 31, as outlined by a government announcement, DHS agreed to provide a 120-day wind down ...

Immigrants who have been in the U.S. for years, rally asking for work permits for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), programs at Franklin Park in ...

Dozens of House members signed a letter asking President Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to redesignate temporary protected status for Nicaraguans on Wednesday. “We ...

President Donald Trump sought to end Temporary Protected Status for Nicaraguans and several other nationalities in 2017 and 2018, putting more than 300,000 people at risk of losing their legal relief.

Activists march toward the White House in 2021 to a call for Congress and the Biden administration to pass legislation granting immigrants with Temporary Protected Status a path to citizenship.

Biden will be extending Temporary Protected Status to around 400,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. That status stops deportation and is often applied to people who can't return home safely.

As of the end of 2021, more than 241,000 Salvadorans, 76,000 Hondurans, 14,000 Nepalis and 4,000 Nicaraguans were enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program.