President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended and redesignated so-called “temporary” amnesty for 4,000 Yemeni nationals living in the US, allowing them to take up US jobs without being deported.
On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Yemeni nationals living in the United States who would otherwise be subject to deportation.
Yemeni nationals with TPS can stay in the U.S. and work in U.S. jobs until March 2026, as long as they claim they were in the U.S. as of early July of this year.
“The action taken by the Department of Homeland Security today will allow some Yemenis currently in the United States to remain and work here until the situation in their home country improves,” Mayorkas said in a statement.
Additionally, Mayorkas announced so-called “special student relief” for Yemeni nationals in the U.S. on F-1 student visas, which will allow them to “apply for work authorization, increase their work hours while in session, and reduce their tuition load while maintaining their F-1 status during the TPS designation period.”
Yemen was designated for TPS, albeit on a temporary basis, by the Obama administration in 2015 and most recently extended by the Biden administration in 2021.
TPS was first created under a 1990 immigration law to prevent federal immigration authorities from deporting people from countries designated as experiencing famine, war or natural disasters.
Since the Clinton administration, TPS has morphed into a de facto amnesty program, and the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden administrations have continually renewed the program for various countries.
Currently, about 900,000 foreign nationals in the U.S. have TPS, avoiding deportation, the majority of whom are from Venezuela, Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and Ukraine.
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