The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to citizens of Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Sudan and Nepal for another 18 months until June 2024.
The temporary immigration status, which was announced Thursday night and will automatically renew once granted, protects people without documentation from deportation action, allowing them to remain and work legally in the country.
The Department of Homeland Security «is well aware of the importance of Temporary Protected Status in providing stability to people’s lives,» one of its spokespersons explained in a statement.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a report that at the end of 2021 there were about 241,700 TPS holders from El Salvador, followed by 76,000 from Honduras and more than 53,000 from Haiti.
After hearing the news, the government of the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, assured that his government will continue to «ensure the welfare of all Salvadorans, inside and outside El Salvador». The country’s ambassador to the United States, Milena Mayorga, also echoed the news on Friday, saying that it is «a temporary relief».
