Biden administration re-designates TPS for Haitians

The Biden administration will extend Temporary Protective Status — or TPS — to Haitians who have recently arrived in the U.S. The status is given to citizens of about a dozen countries determined to be unsafe for return. It provides temporary protection from deportation and a work permit. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Haiti would be re-added to the list. Haitians present in the U.S. on or before Nov. 6 of this year are eligible for the status. Mayorkas said political instability, environmental disaster and gang violence in Haiti had spurred the latest re-designation. But it’s a move rights advocates have long called for, as Haiti deals with the fallout of a major earthquake and presidential assassination in 2021. Despite those calls, thousands of Haitians have already been sent back to their country under the pandemic-era protocol Title 42. TPS was last extended for Haiti in August 2021, and Haitians were required to have been in the U.S. since June of that year to qualify. For more information, visit us at http://www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com/index.html.