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Employment authorizations for certain immigrants from Haiti, Ethiopia, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and Burma will remain valid for a limited period while lower courts respond to a recent Supreme Court ruling.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration issued a temporary extension Friday for work permits held by hundreds of thousands of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, delaying expirations that were scheduled to take effect within hours.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that employment authorizations for Haitian TPS recipients will remain valid through July 24. Permits for eligible immigrants from Ethiopia, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and Burma, also known as Myanmar, were extended through July 17, according to an Epoch Times report.
The agency characterized the action as a short-term measure rather than a reversal of the administration’s efforts to terminate the protections.
“The extension is limited relief until the lower courts align with the U.S. Supreme Court’s favorable decision,” USCIS said.
Temporary Protected Status allows qualifying foreign nationals to remain and work legally in the United States when conditions in their home countries prevent a safe return. Such conditions may include armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary and temporary circumstances.
The Homeland Security secretary is authorized to review conditions in designated countries and determine whether those protections should continue.
Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem concluded during her tenure in 2025 that conditions in Haiti, Ethiopia, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and Burma no longer justified continued TPS designations.
Those determinations were followed by lawsuits in several federal courts, resulting in a series of orders temporarily blocking the administration from ending the protections.
Two of the cases, Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, were consolidated and brought before the Supreme Court. On June 25, the justices ruled for the Trump administration, allowing the federal government to terminate TPS protections for Haitians and Syrians.
USCIS said Friday’s limited extensions are intended to bridge the period while lower federal courts bring their orders into alignment with that decision.
Approximately 300,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States were facing the expiration of their work authorizations on Feb. 3. One day before that deadline, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stayed the termination.
Similar judicial interventions postponed the expiration of protections for immigrants from the other six countries.
Burma’s TPS designation had been scheduled to end Jan. 26. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order three days earlier delaying the termination.
South Sudan’s designation was set to expire Jan. 5, but the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a stay on Dec. 30.
Yemeni TPS recipients were scheduled to lose their employment authorization on May 4. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York paused the termination May 1.
The Somali TPS designation was due to end March 17. Four days before that deadline, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts stayed the administration’s order.
Syrian nationals with TPS faced a Nov. 21 expiration date until the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York delayed the termination two days earlier.
Ethiopian TPS holders were scheduled to lose their designation Feb. 13. The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a stay Jan. 30.
President Donald Trump and senior administration officials have defended the broader effort to end TPS designations, arguing that the policy changes are intended to strengthen domestic security and preserve employment opportunities for American citizens.
The administration has already succeeded in ending Temporary Protected Status for Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. An estimated 89,000 immigrants from those three countries had been living in the United States under the program.
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