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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Ted Hesson

Biden to grant temporary deportation relief to Afghans in the United States

FILE PHOTO: A U.S Airman with the Joint Task Force-Crisis Response high fives a child after helping reunite their family at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. Cpl. Davis Harris/U.S. Marine Corps/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

The Biden administration will grant temporary deportation relief and work permits to Afghans without permanent legal status but who are currently in the U.S., a move that could aid those evacuated after last year's U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The grant of so-called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be available to 72,500 Afghans who entered on what is known as "humanitarian parole," another temporary status, as part of the U.S. evacuation of at-risk Afghans last summer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Wednesday.

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