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The Department of Homeland Security has extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for South Sudan for 18 months from Nov. 3, 2020, through May 2, 2022. The extension allows currently eligible TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through May 2, 2022, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the individual eligibility requirements for TPS. The 60-day re-registration period runs from Nov. 2, 2020, through Jan. 4, 2021.

On March 30, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum directing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf to extend the deferred enforced departure (DED) wind-down period for eligible Liberians through Jan. 10, 2021.

In an effort to prevent a lapse in employment authorizations for certain Liberians in the United States, on March 30, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum directing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf to extend the deferred enforced departure (DED) wind-down period for eligible Liberians through Jan. 10, 2021.

The Department of Homeland Security has extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Somalia for 18 months from March 18, 2020, through Sept. 17, 2021. The extension allows currently eligible TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through Sept. 17, 2021, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the individual eligibility requirements for TPS. The 60-day re-registration period runs from March 11, 2020 through May 11, 2020. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) issued under the TPS designation for Somalia through Sept. 13, 2020. TPS beneficiaries presenting an EAD referenced in the Federal Register notice do not need to show any other document, such as an I–797C Notice of Action, to prove that they qualify for this extension. SAVE will be able to verify the continuation of an applicant’s TPS using their recent TPS-related document along with their A-Number or I–94 number. 

The Department of Homeland Security has extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Yemen for 18 months from March 4, 2020, through Sept. 3, 2021. The extension allows currently eligible TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through Sept. 3, 2021, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the individual eligibility requirements for TPS. The 60-day re-registration period runs from March 2, 2020 through May 1, 2020. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) issued under the TPS designation for Yemen through August 30, 2020. TPS beneficiaries presenting an EAD referenced in this Federal Register Notice do not need to show any other document, such as an I–797C Notice of Action, to prove that they qualify for this extension. SAVE will be able to verify the continuation of an applicant’s TPS using their recent TPS-related document along with their alien or I–94 number. For more information regarding Yemen’s TPS designation, please refer to 85 FR 12313 (PDF), dated March 2, 2020.

The Department of Homeland Security has automatically extended the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs); Forms I-797, Notice of Action (Approval Notice); and Forms I-94, Arrival/Departure Record for eligible Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries under the designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan through Jan. 4, 2021. The TPS-related documents are being extended in compliance with the preliminary injunctions of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Ramos, et al. v. Nielsen, et. al. and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Saget, et. al., v. Trump, et. al., and with the order of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to stay proceedings in Bhattarai v. Nielsen. While the court orders remain in effect, TPS beneficiaries under the designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan retain TPS so long as they otherwise continue to meet the eligibility requirements for TPS. Please see the USCIS country specific TPS webpages for more information about the impact of these orders. For more information regarding the automatic extension of TPS-related documents for beneficiaries from the aforementioned six countries, including which documents have been automatically extended, please refer to the FRN dated Nov. 4, 2019.

The Department of Homeland Security has extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Syria for 18 months from October 1, 2019 through March 31, 2021. The extension allows currently eligible TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through March 31, 2021, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the eligibility requirements for TPS. The 60-day re-registration period runs from September 23, 2019 through November 22, 2019. Given the timeframes for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) issued under the TPS designation of Syria through March 28, 2020. For more information regarding the TPS designation for beneficiaries from Syria, please refer to 84 FR 49751, dated September 23, 2019. For up-to-date information, please check www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status or call the USCIS TPS Hotline at (202) 272-1533 (please note that this is not a toll free number).

Employment authorization documents (EADs) with a category code of “A-12” or “C-19” and a Card Expires date as indicated in the chart, remain valid through Jan. 2, 2020.