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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) now provides a Verification of Release (VOR) card to some alien unaccompanied children. The VOR card is a new wallet-sized, plastic version of the VOR form, which will continue to be issued.
The Department of Homeland Security extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ukraine for 18 months, from April 20, 2025, through Oct. 19, 2026. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended through April 19, 2026, the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with a Card Expires date of April 19, 2025, or Oct. 19, 2023, issued under the prior TPS designation of Ukraine.
The Department of Homeland Security extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Sudan for 18 months, from April 20, 2025, through Oct. 19, 2026. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended through April 19, 2026, the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with a Card Expires date of April 19, 2025; June 30, 2024; Dec. 31, 2022; Oct. 4, 2021; Jan. 4, 2021; Jan. 2, 2020; April 2, 2019; Nov. 2, 2018; or Nov. 2, 2017, issued under a prior TPS designation of Sudan.
The Department of Homeland Security extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela for 18 months, from April 3, 2025, through Oct. 2, 2026. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended through April 2, 2026, the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with a Card Expires date of Sept. 10, 2025; April 2, 2025; March 10, 2024; or Sept. 9, 2022, issued under the prior TPS designations of Venezuela.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador for 18 months, from March 10, 2025, through Sept. 9, 2026. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended through March 9, 2026, the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with a “Card Expires” date of March 9, 2025; June 30, 2024; Dec. 31, 2022; Oct. 4, 2021; Jan. 4, 2021; Jan. 2, 2020; Sept. 9, 2019; or March 9, 2018, issued under the prior TPS designation of El Salvador.
On Jan. 15, 2025, President Biden issued a memorandum extending eligibility for Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for certain Hong Kong residents. The president also directed the secretary of homeland security to provide certain Hong Kong residents continued work authorization through Feb. 5, 2027. For this reason, certain Hong Kong residents are employment authorized incident to DED. In addition, USCIS has automatically extended through Feb. 5, 2027, DED-related Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with a Card Expires date of Feb. 5, 2023, or Feb. 5, 2025.Feb. 5, 2023, or Feb. 5, 2025.
On Dec. 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule to permanently increase the automatic extension period for certain expiring employment authorization and/or Form I-766, Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) to up to 540 days. This increase is available to certain renewal applicants who timely file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization renewal applications. Previously, the EAD auto-extension period of 540 days was based on a temporary final rule published in April 2024.
This announcement provides information about multiple new classes of admission (COAs) for the surviving spouses and children of certain deceased employees of the United States Government (USG) abroad who are lawful permanent residents.These COAs were created in response to section 403(a) of the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (ESSAA 2021) which amends Section 101(a)(27)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).Initially, two COAs were created in 2022 and 2023:SS1 - Surviving spouse or child of deceased USG employee (Arrival); andGS1 - Certain surviving spouses or children of USG Significant Immigrant Visa employee under the Grateful Act (an individual with a GV1 COA) (Arrival).Recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created additional COAs to address the remaining relationships within this legislation:
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has designated Lebanon for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, effective Nov. 27, 2024, through May 27, 2026.
SAVE staff are contacting browser users by phone and email to let them know their SAVE account could be locked if they don’t take steps to prepare for the transition to Login.gov.In late Spring 2025, SAVE browser users will use their email address instead of their SAVE username to sign in using Login.gov. Each browser user will create their own profile on Login.gov with their unique email address. The email address will function as their “username” for Login.gov.All SAVE users have an email address associated with their user account(s). SAVE browser users must update the email associated to their user accounts to their unique email address. Use of the same email address by multiple users will no longer be permitted for SAVE browser users.While an individual may have multiple user accounts tied to one email, multiple people cannot use the same email address within Login.gov. Once a shared email address is established in a login.gov profile, other users who try to use that shared email address will encounter an access block from the system after migration.To ensure you are not restricted from accessing your browser user account, please update your user account email address under User Profile today.
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