October 31, 2018: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice in the Federal Register that temporarily preserves Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. All were countries whose nationals were set to lose their TPS status over the course of the next year: Sudan on November 2, Nicaragua on January 5, 2019, Haiti on July 22, 2019, and El Salvador on September 9, 2019. The notice was published to comply with an early October preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

More information about this decision and what it means for people from these four countries is available at https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status; https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-10-31/pdf/2018-23892.pdf; https://cliniclegal.org/resources/oct-31-dhs-issues-federal-register-notice-continue-tps-four-countries-under-court-order; and https://www.fragomen.com/insights/alerts/dhs-preserves-extends-tps-status-certain-countries-compliance-court-order.