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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.

We appreciate the valuable feedback that user agencies offered at listening sessions last spring, and as a result, we updated the draft SAVE Interface Control Agreement (ICA) v38.

We are excited to share our improved website with you!

Beginning on Jan. 17, 2025, USCIS will dispose of SAVE records more than 10 years old. This affects records dated on or before Dec. 31, 2013.SAVE agency users with the Superuser role have until Jan. 16, 2025, to download case information from the Historic Records Report if they want to retain information about these SAVE cases.For information and guidance on downloading the Historic Records Report, please see the SAVE Instructions to Download Historic Records Report Tip Sheet.If you have any questions, please contact SAVE.Help@uscis.dhs.gov.

On July 26, 2024, President Biden issued a memo to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas directing him to implement Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) and employment authorization for Lebanon through Jan. 25, 2026. When a covered individual receives a DED Employment Authorization Document (EAD) with a Category Code of A11, they may present it to employers to show they are authorized to work, and that they are eligible for certain benefits. 

DHS recently issued a new class of admission (COA) of Military Parole in Place (MIL) to better reflect parole granted under a longstanding process for certain U.S. military service members and their families. Previously, these individuals were issued a general parole COA of Public Interest Parolee (CP).