U.S. Extends Work Permits for TPS Holders from Seven Countries Through Mid-to-Late July

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.

Work permits for Haitian recipients now expire on July 24. Permits for recipients from Ethiopia, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and Myanmar expire on July 17. The extension covers employment authorization documents used for Form I-9 and E-Verify purposes.

The underlying temporary protected status designations remain in legal limbo pending district court orders expected at the end of July. The Supreme Court ruled in June that federal courts generally cannot review the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate a country’s TPS designation.

The same ruling allowed the Trump administration to move forward with canceling protection for roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.

Some employers had already begun terminating TPS holders before the July 10 extension. An earlier placeholder expiration date of July 1 had been extended to July 10 and now to July 17 and July 24. The Trump administration has moved to terminate TPS designations for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal and Venezuela in addition to the seven countries addressed in the July 10 extension.

The administration is moving to terminate protection for all 13 countries whose TPS designations came up for review since 2025. Temporary protected status allows people already in the United States to remain in the country and work legally if their home countries are affected by natural disasters, armed conflict or other extraordinary conditions.