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About 400,000 beneficiaries with a temporary protected status (TPS), mostly Central Americans, were able to obtain US citizenship thanks to a proposal from President Joe Biden, the Pew Center said Monday.
The TPS program, which now includes immigrants from 10 countries, protects them from deportation and grants them work permits. The United States government designates the countries where natural disasters or violence justify the protections afforded to those escaping from those countries.
Former President Donald Trump’s administration tried to withdraw that designation from nearly all beneficiaries, but those efforts bogged down with lawsuits in court.
According to figures from Pew, the TPS for El Salvador, which was established in early 2001, currently includes 247,412 people, and that of Honduras, founded in 1998, employs 79,290 people.
The TPS for Haiti, founded in January 2011, it protects 55,218 people and that of Nicaragua, founded in 1998, protects 4,409 people.
Other countries on the current list of TPS They are Yemen, Somalia, Nepal, Sudan, South Sudan and Syria.
The designations of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan expire on October 4; those of Somalia and Yemen in September; South Sudan will end in May 2022 and Syria in September 2022.
Apply for citizenship
After his inauguration on January 20 Biden asked Congress to pass legislation including the “Tepesianos” (beneficiaries of TPS) who meet certain conditions can immediately apply for permanent residence (green card), and apply for citizenship three years later.
Another program protecting certain foreigners from deportation is being implemented at the discretion of the executive and is now protecting some immigrants from Liberia and Venezuela. The program for Liberia will end in June 2022 and that for Venezuela in July next year.