The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras. The TPS designation for the country expires on July 5, 2025, and the termination is effective September 8, 2025. After September 8, 2025, nationals of Honduras (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Honduras) who have been granted TPS under Honduras’s designation will no longer have TPS.
Background
Honduras was initially designated on January 5, 1999, based on an environmental disaster that resulted in substantial, but temporary, disruption of living conditions, at the request of the Honduran government, and because Honduras was unable, temporarily, to adequately handle the return of its nationals. Since its initial designation in 1999, TPS for Honduras had been continuously extended until July 5, 2018.
In 2018, DHS announced the termination of TPS for Honduras to be effective January 5, 2020, finding that the disruption of living conditions from Hurricane Mitch had decreased and were no longer substantial. However, in response to litigation, DHS announced on May 10, 2019, that it would not implement or enforce the decision to terminate the TPS designation for Honduras. DHS instead continued the validity of TPS-related documentation for Honduran beneficiaries through January 5, 2020, and further extended TPS-related documentation for Hondurans through January 4, 2021.
On June 21, 2023, DHS published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) reconsidering and rescinding the prior administration’s termination of Honduras TPS. The rescission was effective June 9, 2023, and the new 18-month extension of TPS for Honduras began on January 6, 2024, remaining in effect through July 5, 2025.
After consulting with the appropriate US Government agencies, the Secretary reviewed the country conditions and determined that Honduras has made significant progress recovering from the hurricane’s destruction and is now a popular tourism and real estate investment destination. Based upon that finding, the Secretary concluded that the conditions that supported Honduras’s designation for TPS based on an “environmental disaster that resulted in substantial, but temporary, disruption of living conditions” were no longer met.
Implications for Honduran individuals
After September 8, 2025, nationals of Honduras (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Honduras) who have been granted TPS under Honduras’s designation will no longer have TPS. If TPS recipients have no other avenue to obtain a valid immigration status in the United States, they may be required to depart the United States.
DHS recognizes that Honduran TPS beneficiaries continue to be employment authorized during the 60-day transition period. Accordingly, DHS automatically extends the validity of certain EADs previously issued under the TPS designation of Honduras through September 8, 2025. Therefore, as proof of continued employment authorization through September 8, 2025, TPS beneficiaries can show their EADs that have the notation A-12 or C-19 under Category and a “Card Expires” date of January 5, 2018, July 5, 2018, January 5, 2020, January 4, 2021, October 4, 2021, December 31, 2022, June 30, 2024, and July 5, 2025.
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