This benefit for compatriots has been automatically extended for another 15 months from October 4, 2021, the date on which it would expire.
After intense lobbying by Salvadoran organizations with U.S. authorities, the Temporary Protection Status, known as TPS, has been automatically extended for another 15 months starting October 4. of 2021, date on which they expired.
Alliance Americas has confirmed to El Diari d’Avui the new self-extension of the TPS, which benefits more than 250,000 Salvadorans, because the case Ramos vrs. Nielsen is still open. The extension begins when it becomes official in the Federal Register and expires in December 2022. However, this is not a new designation, nor an extension (because the case is not resolved).
The news of the automatic extension was also confirmed on Radio YSKL by representatives of organizations working to protect the rights of migrants.
The National Alliance of the TPS and other organizations in the diaspora held important meetings to achieve the extension, slogan YSKL.
The government of Joe Biden presented in January a migration reform plan to the Senate, which would benefit 11 million immigrants from various countries including El Salvador. The migration project envisages granting citizenship in 3 years to the beneficiaries of the TPS and “dreamers” program.
However, the increasingly cold relations between President Nayib Bukele and the United States could have an impact on the migration situation of thousands of Salvadorans. Given how recently the U.S. Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires, Jean Manes, condemned on behalf of the U.S. government the decision of the Constitutional Chamber allowing presidential re-election. Manes was forceful to warn that both this situation and the coup in the Judiciary on May 1 undermine democracy and damage the Savior’s relationship with the United States.
The United States granted the TPS to Salvadorans in 2001 following a series of earthquakes, while it did so for Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998 following the passage of devastating Hurricane Mitch through Central America.
In 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the extension of the TPS for 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Sudan and Nepal. The validity of the TPS reached October 4 this year; now, with the automatic extension, it extends until December 2022.