TPS EXTENDED FOR HONDURANS, SALVADORANS AND NICARAGUANS

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for eligible nationals of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador by an additional 18 months. It will allow current TPS beneficiaries from these three countries to extend their status and continue living and working in the United States for an additional 18 months, and will affect approximately 78,000 Hondurans, 4,000 Nicaraguans, and 230,000 Salvadorans.

TPS status, as its name implies is a temporary status and therefore does not include a path to legal permanent residency or citizenship.

Read the press release from USCIS.

-Adapted from: MIRA Bulletin: Call-in week - May 1, 2007, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, May 08, 2007.

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