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U.S. Extends Work Permits for Temporary Protected Status Holders from Seven Countries
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services extended employment authorization documents hours before they expired on July 10, 2026. Permits for Haitian recipients now run until July 24 while those for six other countries end July 17.
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services extended work permits on July 10 for hundreds of thousands of immigrants holding temporary protected status from Haiti and six other countries. The action came hours before the documents were set to expire that day.
Haitian recipients received an extension through July 24. The extensions cover employment authorization documents used for Form I-9 and E-Verify purposes.
The underlying temporary protected status designations remain subject to district court orders expected by the end of July. A June Supreme Court ruling held that federal courts generally cannot review Department of Homeland Security decisions to terminate such designations.
The same ruling permitted the Trump administration to proceed with ending protection for roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
Some employers had already begun terminating TPS holders before the July 10 extension. The Trump administration has also moved to end designations for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal and Venezuela, covering all 13 countries reviewed since 2025. An earlier placeholder expiration of July 1 had been extended stepwise to July 10 and then to the new dates.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department of Homeland Security, issued the announcement.
