What's New

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela for 18 months, from Sept. 10, 2022, through March 10, 2024.  Individuals with a pending or approved TPS application may qualify for certain public benefits and REAL ID driver's licenses and identification cards. When applying for a Federal, state, or local government benefit, individuals will need to show a document proving they applied for or are beneficiaries of TPS for Venezuela. They may provide a TPS-based Employment Authorization Document (EAD) with a category code of A12 or C19, or a copy of their Form I-797, Notice of Action, for a current Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status.  Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended the validity of EADs issued under the prior TPS designation for Venezuela through Sept. 9, 2023. TPS for Venezuela applicants or beneficiaries presenting an auto-extended EAD do not need to show any other document, such as a Form I-797, Notice of Action, to prove that they qualify for the EAD auto-extension. SAVE will be able to verify an individual's TPS or pending TPS application (and any employment authorization, including any EAD auto-extension) using information from the documents noted above. In some instances, the benefit-granting agency may need to institute additional verification.

President Biden has issued a memorandum extending and expanding eligibility for Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians.  The president also directed the secretary of homeland security to provide eligible Liberians continued employment authorization through June 30, 2024.

SAVE service has been restored. Benefit-granting agencies are once again able to fully access their SAVE account and process cases.

SAVE is temporarily not available due to technical difficulties. While SAVE is unavailable, agencies and applicants will not be able to access their SAVE accounts or check their case status using SAVE CaseCheck. 

During Operation Allies Welcome, many Afghans who arrived as part of the evacuation efforts were paroled into the United States. Many applied for and received Form I-766, Employment Authorization Documents (EADs).

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended and redesignated Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syria for 18 months, from Oct. 1, 2022, through March 31, 2024.

Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Venezuela expired on July 20, 2022. Venezuelans and individuals without nationality who last habitually resided in Venezuela who wish to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the existing designation, including those who were covered under the January 2021 grant of DED, may apply for TPS before the registration period ends Sept. 9, 2022.

President Biden has issued a memorandum extending and expanding eligibility for Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians.  The President also directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide eligible Liberians continued work authorization through June 30, 2024.  To this end, eligible Liberians are employment authorized incident to DED.