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The Trump administration has enacted significant policy changes impacting individuals authorized to work under various immigration programs, including Temporary Protected Status (TPS),* humanitarian parole,** and the CHNV*** programs. The chart below is intended to assist employers in determining the work authorization status of employees who have presented an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under one of these programs. Note : Several federal lawsuits are currently pending across the United States, challenging the government’s decision to terminate these programs. As a result, the information provided here is subject to change based on the outcomes of these legal proceedings. This information is current as of July 10, 2025. *Temporary Protected Status (TPS) TPS is a humanitarian protection program that shields individuals from deportation to countries experiencing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinar...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that Temporary Protected Status for  Honduras  and  Nicaragua  will terminate on September 8. The announcements come only one week after the DHS announced that  TPS status for Haiti would end on September 2 . For both Honduras and Nicaragua, the announcements indicate that employment authorization is automatically extended during the 60-day transition period. Honduras Honduran TPS beneficiaries can show their eligibility for the automatic extension with Employment Authorization Document cards that have category codes of A-12 or C-19, plus one of the following card expiration dates: January 5, 2018 July 5, 2018 January 5, 2020 January 4, 2021 October 4, 2021 December 31, 2022 June 30, 2024 July 5, 2025 Nicaragua Nicaraguan TPS beneficiaries can show their eligibility for the automatic extension with EAD cards that have category codes of A-12 or C-19, plus one of the following card expiration dates: January...

On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift  U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen’s March 31 order   halting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rescission of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans. Under the rescission, announced in a  Federal Register Notice on Feb. 5, 2025 , Venezuelans who registered for TPS under former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ October 3, 2023, designation of Venezuela for TPS, would have lost their TPS-based work authorizations on April 2, 2025, while TPS itself would have expired on April 7, 2025 . While the language of the Federal Register Notice indicates that Venezuelan TPS holders who registered under the 2023 designation will no longer be work authorized, the Supreme Court specifically noted that its  Miscellaneous Order (05/19/2025)  does not preclude challenges to any DHS actions that seek to invalidate TPS documents, including work auth...