“Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro N. Mayorkas at present introduced the extension and redesignation of Haiti for Short-term Protected Standing for 18 months, from Aug. 4, 2024, to Feb. 3, 2026, as a result of extraordinary and non permanent situations in Haiti. The corresponding Federal Register Notice gives details about registering for TPS as a brand new or present beneficiary below Haiti’s extension and redesignation.
After session with interagency companions, Secretary Mayorkas decided on June 3, 2024, that an 18-month extension and redesignation of Haiti for TPS is warranted as a result of situations that help Haiti’s designation are ongoing and that doing so was not opposite to the nationwide curiosity of the US. A number of areas in Haiti proceed to face violence or insecurity, and plenty of have restricted entry to security, well being care, meals, and water. Haiti is especially vulnerable to flooding and mudslides, and sometimes experiences vital injury as a result of storms, flooding, and earthquakes. These overlapping humanitarian challenges have resulted in ongoing pressing humanitarian wants.
“We’re offering this humanitarian aid to Haitians already current in the US given the situations that existed of their dwelling nation as of June 3, 2024,” stated Secretary Mayorkas. “In doing so, we’re realizing the core goal of the TPS legislation and our obligation to meet it.”
The redesignation of Haiti for TPS permits an estimated 309,000 extra Haitian nationals (or people having no nationality who final habitually resided in Haiti) to file preliminary purposes for TPS, if they’re in any other case eligible and in the event that they established residence in the US on or earlier than June 3, 2024, and have continued to reside in the US since then (“steady residence”). Eligible people who shouldn’t have TPS could submit an preliminary Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status, in the course of the preliminary registration interval that runs from July 1, 2024, by way of Feb. 3, 2026. Candidates additionally could apply for TPS-related Employment Authorization Paperwork and for journey authorization. Candidates can request an EAD by submitting a accomplished Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, with their Kind I-821, or individually later.
Haitians who weren’t residing in the US on or earlier than June 3, 2024, usually are not eligible for such safety, and can face removing to Haiti if they don’t set up a authorized foundation to remain.
The extension of TPS for Haiti permits present beneficiaries to retain TPS by way of Feb. 3, 2026, in the event that they proceed to satisfy TPS eligibility necessities. Present beneficiaries below TPS for Haiti should re-register in a well timed method in the course of the 60-day re-registration interval from July 1, 2024, by way of Aug. 30, 2024, to make sure they maintain their TPS and employment authorization. Re-registration is proscribed to people who beforehand registered for and had been granted TPS below Haiti’s preliminary designation.
DHS acknowledges that not all re-registrants who apply for a brand new EAD could obtain it earlier than their present EAD expires and is routinely extending by way of Aug. 3, 2025, the validity of sure EADs beforehand issued below Haiti’s TPS designation. Particulars shall be obtainable on USCIS.gov.
When you have one among these EADs, to get an EAD that’s legitimate after Aug. 3, 2025, you should re-register for TPS and file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, following the directions within the Federal Register discover extending and redesignating Haiti for TPS by way of Feb. 3, 2026. If U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers approves your newly filed Kind I-765, USCIS will concern you an EAD legitimate by way of Feb. 3, 2026.
USCIS will proceed to course of pending purposes filed below earlier TPS designations for Haiti. People with a pending Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status, or a associated Form I-765 as of July 1, 2024, don’t have to file both utility once more. If USCIS approves a pending Kind I-821 or Kind I-765 filed below the earlier designation of TPS for Haiti, USCIS will grant the person TPS by way of Feb. 3, 2026, and concern an EAD legitimate by way of the identical date.
The Federal Register Notice explains eligibility standards, timelines, and procedures vital for present beneficiaries to re-register and renew EADs, and for brand spanking new candidates to submit an preliminary utility below the redesignation and apply for an EAD.
This extension and redesignation doesn’t apply for anybody who was not already in the US on June 3, 2024, and penalties proceed to be enforced on these trying to cross unlawfully or with out authorization into the US. Because the Securing the Border Presidential Proclamation and Interim Closing Rule was issued in early June, over 24,000 noncitizens have been eliminated or returned to greater than 20 nations. All irregular migration journeys, particularly maritime routes, are extraordinarily harmful, unforgiving, and sometimes end in lack of life. DHS will proceed to implement U.S. legal guidelines and coverage all through the Florida Straits and the Caribbean area, in addition to on the southwest border. U.S. coverage is to return noncitizens who don’t set up a authorized foundation to stay in the US.”
