While the Supreme Court ruling<\/a> last month upheld the federal government\u2019s authority to terminate TPS for citizens from Haiti and Syria, it also exposed the insecurity of immigrants from many other countries, including El Salvador, Venezuela and Ukraine.\u00a0 The Trump Administration has attempted to end TPS for people from 13 countries<\/a>. Richard Boswell, a professor of immigration law<\/a> who has been involved in the field since the 1980s, called the question over whether the administration can legally do this \u201ca very technical legal wrangle and battle\u201d between the Supreme Court and lower courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Supreme court, Boswell says, is \u201cgiving the [Trump] administration free rein.\u201d The lower courts<\/a>, he said, are \u201cnot as inclined to so quickly take away rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n In practice that means some TPS beneficiaries can continue to work or even have their permits extended while varying lawsuits filed on behalf of TPS holders from different countries work their way through the courts.<\/p>\n This impacts more than a million TPS holders across the country and some 79,320 TPS holders in California as of March of last year, according to a report<\/a> by the Congressional Research Service, published by the Library of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most TPS programs have been terminated<\/p>\n \t\t El Salvador (2011)<\/p>\n 170,125 TPS holders<\/p>\n Venezuela (2023) <\/p>\n 352,190 TPS holders<\/p>\n Ukraine (2022)<\/p>\n 101,150 TPS holders<\/p>\n Haiti<\/p>\n (2010)<\/p>\n 348,187 TPS holders<\/p>\n Honduras<\/p>\n (1999)<\/p>\n 72,000 TPS holders<\/p>\n Venezuela (2021)<\/p>\n 252,825 TPS holders<\/p>\n \t\t El Salvador (2011)<\/p>\n 170,125 TPS holders<\/p>\n Venezuela (2023) <\/p>\n 352,190 TPS holders<\/p>\n Ukraine (2022)<\/p>\n 101,150 TPS holders<\/p>\n Haiti<\/p>\n (2010)<\/p>\n 348,187 TPS holders<\/p>\n Honduras<\/p>\n (1999)<\/p>\n 72,000 TPS holders<\/p>\n Venezuela (2021)<\/p>\n 252,825 TPS holders<\/p>\n Source:American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigration Forum and USCIS. Chart by Kelly Waldron.<\/p>\n Lawsuits challenging the terminations for some of the 17 countries with TPS designations, remain active in district courts, but the Supreme Court\u2019s June 25 decision in Mullin v. Doe<\/a> was a blow. It is likely only a matter of time before most of the TPS designations, which are unique for each country, are terminated.\u00a0<\/p>\n When the Supreme Court makes a ruling, it addresses the legal question framed by the lawsuit \u2014\u00a0in this case, whether the federal government has the authority to end TPS when it was created by an act of Congress.<\/a> According to the Supreme Court, the federal government does have that right. Now, the lower courts have to figure out the practical means of implementing that decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n The impact of the ruling, however, has already been dramatic. In 2025 alone, more than 700,000 <\/a>immigrants from countries such as Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have lost their TPS status in the United States because of terminations by the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n Take the case of\u00a0 Jhony Silva Jr., a 30-year-old TPS holder from Honduras who has lived in the United States since he was three years old. Silva lost his legal status last September, when the federal government terminated his TPS status.\u00a0<\/p>\n That resulted in the loss of his job as a nursing assistant at Stanford University. With it, Silva says he also lost his will to become a nurse, because he knows he cannot work legally. This has left the father of a 9-year-old son living at home with his parents without a stable job or the ability to get one.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI just feel like a burden,\u201d said Silva. He is a plaintiff in National TPS Alliance v. Noem<\/a>, a case filed last November,\u00a0 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco, on behalf of TPS holders from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Immigrants from other countries also remain in legal limbo. The expiration dates of work permits are updated periodically<\/a>, depending on lawsuits in the lower courts. However, the Supreme Court decision will likely terminate the TPS status of most countries soon. <\/p>\n For the moment, however, some TPS holders continue to work with permits that remain in effect or are even extended.<\/p>\n A confusion of expiration dates\u00a0<\/p>\n Lower court rulings have extended work permits for some, but not for all.\u00a0 \u201cIt has created a lot of panic, false hope and confusion,\u201d said Reema Ghabra, an attorney at the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s tearing families apart,\u201d said Ghabra. She knows a Yemeni family in Oakland, where the father lost his TPS, while the mother retained hers. Their children, meanwhile, are U.S. citizens. Because the children are minors, they cannot apply to sponsor their parents, so the mixed-status family faces difficult decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some of Ghabra\u2019s clients consider self-deporting, but many do not have lives in their home countries to go back to or fear violence and political unrest there.\u00a0 In this case, this family decided to stay and \u201chope for the best,\u201d said Ghabra.\u00a0<\/p>\n When families like this come to Ghabra looking for help, she said, there is often nothing she can do with the available legal tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n Indeed, the gutting of the immigration system and constant changes has sowed such confusion that TPS holders, such as Abdullah Althawr, are not even sure when their work permits actually expire.<\/p>\n Althawr, a Yemeni engineering student who is transferring to San Francisco State in the fall, found out last week that he may be unable to continue working the graveyard shift as a security guard at Laney College, where he also attends school. According to an email from the security company he works for and shared with Mission Local, he has until September 3 to submit proof he is allowed to work legally.<\/p>\n \u201cThey announced TPS is terminated,\u201d he said. \u201cIs that a termination for my work authorization or not?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Yemen\u2019s TPS designation was set to expire on May 4, 2026, but a federal court in New York stayed that termination on May 1, keeping TPS holders\u2019 status and work authorization valid while litigation continues, according to the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services. \u00a0The agency lists July 17, 2026, as the current reference date for Yemeni TPS holders\u2019 employment authorization \u2014 which is likely what led to his employer\u2019s email.<\/p>\n But like immigrants\u2019 personal lives, there\u2019s nothing straightforward about their legal cases. Althawr, who arrived in the United States 14 years ago, also has a pending asylum application and is awaiting a court date. He checks the immigration court portal every day;\u00a0court dates for asylum hearings have been known to change unexpectedly, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I am not going to be able to work, how will I pay rent, bills, car insurance? I don\u2019t know what I am going to do,\u201d said Althawr.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I dream they have taken me to the jail, to the prison, and I feel so scared,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The termination of TPS \u201cis cutting me off from all my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rina Valle, an immigrant from El Salvador, has been cleaning offices in downtown San Francisco for over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-417881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-immigration","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tps-mobile.png\"\/)
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