This post serves as a regularly updated resource to keep employers informed regarding TPS designations, extensions, cancellations, and other policy changes. This post was last updated on February 25, 2025.
Haiti
On July 1, 2024, DHS redesignated and extended TPS for nationals of Haiti for 18 months. However, on February 20, 2025, Secretary Noem amended that notice to reduce the redesignation and extension from 18 months to 12 months. The new TPS expiration date for Haiti is August 3, 2025. Unless redesignated and extended prior to that date, Haitians with TPS will revert to the US immigration status they held prior to the TPS designation, unless they have acquired another immigration status allowing them to lawfully remain in the United States. For many in this program, their prior underlying immigration status has expired, leaving them unable to lawfully remain in the United States and work, making them subject to removal from the United States.
Venezuela
More than 600,000 Venezuelan citizens in the United States have benefitted from Temporary Protected Status (TPS) since 2021. In January 2025, the program was extended until October 2, 2026, by then Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. TPS allows Venezuelans to remain in the United States and work lawfully because the conditions in Venezuela are not safe for them to return to: limited access to basic services, collapse of the healthcare system, dilapidated infrastructure, and the ongoing economic crisis.
On January 29, 2025, Kristi Noem, the new DHS Secretary, reversed the extension of TPS for Venezuela. Secretary Noem reversed the extensions even though the State Department’s Travel Advisory for US citizens interested in traveling to Venezuela is “Level 4 – Do Not Travel”. The 2023 TPS designation ends on April 7, 2025, and the 2021 TPS designation expires on September 5, 2025. Advocacy organizations have filed law suits challenging the termination of TPS for Venezuela, the National TPS Alliance (filed in the Northern District of California) and CASA, Inc./Make the Road (filed in the US District Court for the District of Maryland).
When TPS expires for Venezuelans, they will revert to the US immigration status they held prior to the TPS designation, unless they have acquired another immigration status allowing them to lawfully remain in the United States. For many in this program, their prior underlying immigration status has expired, leaving them unable to lawfully remain in the United States and work, making them subject to removal from the United States.
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