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USCIS and E-Verify have updated their previous coordinated employer guidance with respect to handling I-9 and E-Verify compliance for current TPS beneficiaries from Burma, Ethiopia, and Somalia....more
Employers must pay special attention to Employment Authorization Document (“EAD”) and Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) work authorization as part of maintaining I-9 compliance....more
Recent federal court orders raise important compliance considerations for employers with TPS-authorized employees. Judges have temporarily preserved Temporary Protected Status and work authorization for Haiti and Ethiopia,...more
USCIS and E-Verify have updated their previous coordinated employer guidance with respect to handling I-9 and E-Verify compliance for current TPS beneficiaries from Haiti and Syria. Below are updated instructions....more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." This federal budget reconciliation law addresses various issues including tax policy, border security and immigration, defense,...more
On March 20, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision... ...more
This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent email alerts and added guidance on the E‑Verify What’s New area on their website establishing dates for Form I‑9 Section 2 (and related Section 1 notations)...more
USCIS and E-Verify have published coordinated employer guidance confirming how to handle I-9 and E-Verify compliance for current Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries....more
While court orders currently preserve Temporary Protected Status protections and work authorization for beneficiaries from all Somalia, Burma, and Syria, each stay is temporary, subject to appeal, and, in the case of Syria,...more
The US Department of Homeland Security’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation has been stayed by a federal district court, with the TPS protections and work authorization remaining in effect for now....more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued updated guidance late Friday afternoon, March 13, 2026, revising Form I-9 instructions for Haitian TPS beneficiaries. ...more
On March 3, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice in the Federal Register confirming the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen. The termination will take effect 60 days after...more
Status of Haiti TPS Work Authorization- A federal court in the D.C. District has stayed the planned termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which was slated to end on Feb. 3, 2026. This stay preserves...more
On February 6, 2026, the administration sought emergency relief from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s February 2 order and filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, moving the...more
The H-1B Visa is the “workhorse” of nonimmigrant visa classifications, allowing employers to attract or retain highly skilled IT professionals, accountants, architects, business/operations analysts, designers, doctors,...more
A federal appeals court recently issued a stay of the California district court order that had vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for nationals of...more
On Feb. 13, 2026, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Yemen will not be extended. This TPS designation will terminate 60 days after the notice is published in the...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s order vacating the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua,...more
USCIS confirms no valid TPS-based work authorization. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed a lower court decision from a federal court in California that had vacated the termination of...more
In our recent post on Through the Immigration Lens, we discussed the uncertainty created after the district court’s December 31, 2025 decision restoring Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for beneficiaries from Honduras, Nepal...more
Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation and related benefits were scheduled to terminate on Feb. 3, 2026. On Feb. 2, 2026, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an...more
A wave of last-minute litigation aimed at stopping Temporary Protected Status (TPS) terminations is driving rapid, high-impact updates on the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) TPS webpages. As of this writing,...more
In recent weeks, many employers have found themselves in unfamiliar territory: TPS litigation is moving quickly, headlines suggest increased ICE enforcement and HR teams are being asked to “double-check everything.” That...more
On February 2, 2026, a federal district court issued a stay under 5 U.S.C. § 705, temporarily blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS). ...more