Overview
- The 2021 Venezuela TPS designation terminated at 11:59 p.m. on November 7, removing deportation safeguards and work authorization for roughly a quarter-million people.
- Protections for an additional cohort of about 350,000 Venezuelans tied to a 2023 designation ended weeks earlier after Supreme Court actions.
- A narrow group who re-registered between January 17 and February 5, 2025 retains valid Employment Authorization Documents until October 2, 2026.
- Loss of TPS triggers immediate risks including job loss, ineligibility for many state IDs like driver’s licenses, and potential exposure to immigration enforcement, with limited legal alternatives such as asylum or family petitions.
- Separately, DHS set January 5, 2026 as the effective end date for South Sudan’s TPS and extended certain EADs to that date, estimating about 232 current beneficiaries.