NEW YORK CITY - Nearly 1.2 million of the roughly 21.6 million noncitizen immigrants living in the U.S. are either receiving or eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a designation that gives them time-limited permission to live and work in the United States and avoid potential deportation, a recently published study by the Pew Research Center shows.
The federal government offers TPS to qualifying immigrants who live in the U.S. and come from selected nations that are deemed unsafe to return to because of war, natural disasters or other crises. Since Biden took office in 2021, TPS designation has been greatly expanded.
