The United States on Friday extended a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador for another 18 months, starting March 10, 2025 until September 9, 2026.
The announcement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) argues that the measure is taken “due to environmental conditions that prevent people from returning to their country safely.”
The DHS states that the decision, which will allow some 234,000 Salvadorans to re-register for TPS, is the result of monitoring the situation in the Central American nation.
The extension of TPS for El Salvador is specifically based on the consequences generated by geological and meteorological events, including significant storms and heavy rains in 2023 and 2024, that continue to affect the areas severely impacted by the 2001 earthquakes.
These earthquakes were the basis for the initial designation of TPS for El Salvador on March 9, 2001.
Beneficiaries must re-register
Beneficiaries who want to apply for the TPS extension must once again undergo rigorous national security and public safety exams during the new registration.
People are excluded from TPS if they have been convicted of one felony or two misdemeanors.
Current beneficiaries under TPS for El Salvador must re-register within 60 days of publication of the notice in the Federal Register to ensure they maintain their TPS and employment authorization.
The statement reported that not all those who will apply for the extension of this TPS will receive a new Employment Authorization Document (EAD) before the current one expires, and it is automatically extending it until March 9, 2026 the validity of EADs previously issued under the TPS designation for El Salvador.
The TPS extension only applies to people who are already in the United States and are current beneficiaries of TPS for El Salvador.
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