Overview
- USCIS on July 10 issued temporary extensions of Employment Authorization Documents, setting Haiti holders’ permits to expire July 24 and holders from Burma, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen to expire July 17.
- The Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling that limits nonconstitutional review allowed the administration to move to end TPS for Haiti and Syria and prompted DHS to plan implementation and seek dissolution of remaining injunctions.
- Employers report confusion about who must be removed from payroll and some have already put TPS workers on leave or fired them, while legal advisers urge employers to follow USCIS placeholder-date instructions and seek counsel.
- Advocates held rallies and pressed Congress for a permanent fix, warning that termination would expose large numbers of long‑time workers to immediate deportation and would strain health care and service-sector staffing.
- TPS was created by Congress in 1990 to protect people from countries in crisis and currently covers more than 330,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians among other nationalities, a fact that shapes ongoing litigation and policy debates.