Sentences with phrase «temporary protected status»

Although some parents were undocumented, «more than two - thirds were living in the US legally, whether as a citizen, permanent resident, or under temporary protected status,» the media release noted.

These efforts have included outreach to train community leaders and advocates on the process of applying for temporary protected status and have provided valuable assistance to a vulnerable community in need of humanitarian relief.

The clinic has worked on behalf of Haitian nationals seeking temporary protected status.

Immigration practice includes green cards for spouses, siblings, parents, children; citizenship / naturalization applications; cancellation of removal and handling of removal proceedings; temporary protected status applications; asylum cases; asylum appeals; fiancé visas; and waiver for inadmissibility.

Now Trump Wants to Send Her Back., CNN (Dec. 19, 2017), http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/us/haitians-lose-protected-status/index.html [https://perma.cc/GWH8-XPTB](explaining effects of ending temporary protected status after extending it to son many for over seven years).

[19] In order to leave the chaos Haitians fled to the U.S. in droves, and lawyers helped thousands of people apply for temporary protected status so they would not be deported from the United States.

[20] See Julia Preston, Haitians Illegally in U.S. Given Protected Status, N.Y. Times (Jan. 15, 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/world/americas/16immig.html [https://perma.cc/2TJT-P576](explaining Haitian immigrants need for temporary protected status within United States).

Payen is accused of falsely claiming to be a lawyer employed by the United Nations and scamming Haitian immigrants out of thousands of dollars by promising to file papers seeking temporary protected status on their behalf.

That pressure led... Continue reading «Officials resigned reportedly after pressure to cancel temporary protected status for immigrants»

Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California, last week unveiled new legislation to protect undocumented immigrants living under temporary protected status.

The Niagara County Legislature voted 10 - 5 to direct its agencies to support the Department of Homeland Security's decision rescinding temporary protected status for nearly 20,000 El Salvadorans, and ignore any New York state directives that run contrary to that order.

Nearly 25,000 Haitians living in Rockland County under temporary protected status would lose their status if not renewed by July 24th

The forum is scheduled for Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Prospect Park YMCA at 357 Ninth St. Topics to be discussed include temporary protected status, immigrants» rights and various services that are available to the community.

The Trump administration says it will end the temporary protected status that has allowed some 200,000 natives of El Salvador to live in the U.S. without fear of deportation for nearly 17 years.

As the Trump administration has shifted policies on undocumented immigrants and individuals with temporary protected status (TPS), putting more individuals at risk of deportation, Christians have quickly brought up the dilemma of mixed - status families, whose children are US citizens but parents are not.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that it would end temporary protected status (TPS) for the roughly 200,000 Salvadorans allowed to live in the US without fear of deportation following a pair of earthquakes in their country in 2001.

Navarro, 45, has been shielded from deportation through temporary protected status, a federal program for immigrants who were unable to return to their...

On Monday January 8th 2018, the administration ended temporary protected status (TPS) for those from El Salvador.

He also objected that Democratic proposals to adjust the visa lottery and federal policy for immigrants with temporary protected status were going to drive more people from countries he deemed undesirable into the United States instead of attracting immigrants from places like Norway and Asia, people familiar with the meeting said.

«When the question was raised about Haitians, for example — we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval.

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61 Instead, the Court was prepared to accept that while the relevant land rights legislation has an air of permanence about it and may need to continue indefinitely to protect the relevant Indigenous groups culture it could still be recognised as meeting the requirement for a special measure that it is temporary in scope as the legislation's status as a special measure could be reviewed at a later date to determine whether its objectives had been met and the purpose of the special measure had been exhausted.