News & Alerts
Later this year, SAVE browser users will begin using Login.gov to log into SAVE. This change will require users to enter more information than just a password through a process called multi-factor authentication. For example, along with the password, users may be asked to enter a code sent to their email or phone. Enhancing the SAVE login process:Helps prevent unauthorized account access if a system password has been compromised; andMinimizes risks due to human error, misplaced passwords, and lost devices. Stay tuned for more!
SAVE published a new SAVE Tutorial that provides up-to-date guidance to help SAVE users correctly and efficiently use SAVE to verify benefit applicants.
The tutorial takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete and is available now for review.
DHS has issued a new class of admission (COA) known as Western Hemisphere Parole (WHP). This announcement provides information about documentation and the SAVE verification process to individuals who are paroled into the United States with the WHP COA. Individuals with this COA can be paroled, on a case-by-case basis, for up to three years.
SAVE published a new SAVE Tutorial that provides up-to-date guidance to help SAVE users correctly and efficiently use SAVE to verify benefit applicants.
The tutorial takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete and is available now for review.
This announcement provides information about three new classes of admission (COAs) for the surviving spouses and children of deceased Afghans and Iraqis who previously worked for or on the behalf of the U.S. government. The new COAs are:SW1: Surviving Spouse or child of an SQ1-eligible person;SW2: Current spouse of SW1; andSW3: Unmarried child of SW1.Individuals with these COAs are lawful permanent residents (LPRs). LPRs are employment authorized incident to their LPR status.They may present the following documentation that includes a SW1, SW2, or SW3 COA:Form I-551, Permanent Resident Card (Green Card);Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record with a Temporary I-551 Permanent Resident Stamp;Foreign passport with a Temporary I-551 Permanent Resident Stamp; orForeign passport with a Temporary I-551 Machine Readable Immigrant Visa.For additional information about documentation, please visit SAVE’s Commonly Used Immigration Documents webpage.SAVE VerificationSAVE can provide an initial verification response of “Lawful Permanent Resident – Employment Authorized” for a COA of SW1, SW2, or SW3.
A Feb. 14, 2024, presidential memorandum on Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Palestinians directed Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to authorize employment through Aug. 13, 2025, for Palestinians covered by DED. After a covered individual receives a DED Employment Authorization Document (EAD) with a category of A11, they may present it to show they are authorized to work and that they are eligible for certain benefits.When applying for a federal, state, or local government benefit or license, individuals will need to provide documentation to show they are a Palestinian individual covered under DED. Individuals may provide a DED EAD with an A11 category or a Form I-797, Notice of Approval, for employment authorization with an A11 category. SAVE will be able to verify an individual’s DED with information from these documents. For additional information, view the Federal Register notice implementing DED for Palestinians as well as the USCIS webpage on DED for Palestinians.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended and redesignated Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, from June 13, 2024, through Dec. 12, 2025. 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 Ethiopia. They may provide a TPS 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 through June 12, 2025, the validity of EADs with a Card Expires date of June 12, 2024, issued under the prior TPS designation of Ethiopia. TPS Ethiopia applicants or beneficiaries presenting an auto-extended EAD do not need to show any other document, such as a Form I-797 or I-797C, Notice of Action, to prove that they qualify for the EAD auto-extension.
On April 8, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a second temporary final rule (89 FR 24628) temporarily increasing the automatic extension period for employment authorization and/or Employment Authorization Documents (EAD, Form I-766) to up to 540 days. This temporary increase is available to certain individuals who timely filed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, renewal applications on or before Sept. 30, 2025. Previously, the EAD auto-extension was only up to 180 days for EAD renewal applications received by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on or after Oct. 27, 2023.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services invites SAVE user agency points of contact and Web Services developers to participate in one of the following SAVE Interface Control Agreement version 38 (ICA v38) Listening Sessions:
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 noncitizen unaccompanied children. The VOR card is a new wallet-sized, plastic version of the VOR form, which will continue to be issued.
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