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Latin Times
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Miguel Paiva

El Salvador's TPS Deadline Passed With No Decision: What That Legal Gap Actually Means

U.S. work authorization documents, Social Security card, and legal TPS records rest over a U.S. flag. Salvadoran TPS holders face uncertainty as work permit expiration dates collide with contradictory DHS guidance. (Credit: Illustrated by Miguel Paiva / Latin Times)

Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador was supposed to run out at midnight Wednesday. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security spent the day telling reporters the opposite: nothing has ended yet. Immigration lawyers spent the same day telling their clients something closer to the truth on the ground — that the paperwork letting them work legally had already run out, statement or no statement.


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