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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gisela Salomon and Matt Sedensky

Loss of work authorization sows confusion for thousands of Haitian immigrants and their US employers

Immigration TPS - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent over a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers.

On Tuesday, he suspended six of them after they lost authorization to work in the U.S.

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