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• Stepping Forward, with Caution: The Inter-American Court’s Approach to Transfemicide in Leonela Zelaya

  Just a few weeks ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its long-awaited judgment in Leonela Zelaya and Other v Honduras, concerning Leonela Zelaya’s transfemicide. Leonela Zelaya was born in Cortés, on Honduras’ northern coast. Estranged from her family and expelled from her home, she moved to Tegucigalpa in her twenties, where she engaged...

• Ninth Circuit Reinstates DHS TPS Termination for Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s order vacating the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua, reinstating the DHS termination. In granting the stay pending appeal, the Ninth Circuit concluded the government is likely to succeed on the...

• TPS Pendulum Swings as the Ninth Circuit Sides with DHS and Restores Certain Terminations

  In our recent post on Through the Immigration Lens, we discussed the uncertainty created after the district court’s December 31, 2025 decision restoring Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for beneficiaries from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua, and the resulting confusion for employers attempting to navigate Form I-9 compliance. The court decision left many employers in an I‑9...

• TPS Is Back-ish for Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua: I-9s In Limbo

  By: Dawn M. Lurie, Alexander J. Madrak, and Selene Malench* On December 31, 2025, a federal court ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. This decision restored protections for approximately 60,000 TPS holders. As expected, the government has appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals....

• Federal Court Vacates TPS Terminations for Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua; DHS Separately Ends Somalia TPS

  On Dec. 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decisions to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, finding that the terminations violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The court concluded that DHS failed to conduct an objective assessment of...

• El TPS de Honduras y Nicaragua y la Autorización de Empleo vencen el 8 de septiembre

  View English Version here El Tribunal de Apelaciones del Noveno Circuito le permitió al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (“DHS” por “Department of Homeland Security”) siguiera adelante con la extinción del Estatus de Protección Temporal  (“TPS” por “Temporary Protected Status”) correspondiente a Honduras y a Nicaragua a partir del 8 de septiembre de 2025. Un tribunal...

• DHS pone fin al TPS de Honduras y Nicaragua

  View English Version Here El  8 de julio, la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional Kristi Noem anunció la extinción del Estatus de Protección Temporal (“TPS” por “Temporary Protected Status”) correspondiente a Honduras y a Nicaragua.  La extinción del “TPS” para Honduras y Nicaragua entrará en vigor el 8 de septiembre de 2025. El Departamento de Seguridad...

• TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua and Work Authorization Expires September 8

  Ver la versión en español aquí The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to move forward with its termination of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Honduras and Nicaragua effective September 8, 2025. A district court had postponed the termination of TPS until November 18, 2025. The Ninth Circuit stayed the...

• TPS for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua: Another Shift in the Legal Winds

  No action is required just yet, but employers and stakeholders should be aware of a significant development in the ongoing litigation surrounding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. We expect an update from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shortly, notifying employers of a shortened expiration date for work authorization. Ninth Circuit...

• TPS for Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua Extended: The Ride Rolls On

  In a major legal development, a federal judge in the Northern District of California has postponed the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. This decision, issued on July 31, 2025, blocks the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from ending TPS for these countries and extends work authorization for...

Featured documents

• Honduras Brings Suit Against Brazil at ICJ for Unlawful Interference

  Yesterday, Honduras filed an application instituting proceedings at the International Court of Justice against Brazil alleging that Brazil is unlawfully interfering in matters that are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of Honduras.  More specifically, Honduras alleges that Brazil has...

• New Critical Crime Warning for Honduras

  Although crime in the country of Honduras has declined in the past two years, the U.S. Department of State continues to warn that the level of crime and violence in Honduras remains “critically high,” The State Department website warns that: “Crime and violence are serious problems throughout the...

• Former Honduran president sought on U.S. drug charges

  Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Los Angeles Times reports on the arrest of the former President of Honduras on drug trafficking charges.  He had been one of the U.S.’s top allies in Central America. U.S. prosecutors identified President Juan Orlando Hernández as a co-conspirator in a drug...

• Tomorrow’s Elections in Honduras

  The Chicago Religious Leadership Network has just sent us the following announcement concerning an event in Chicago to protest tomorrow’s elections in Honduras.  Additional demonstrations will be held in Washington DC and most likely in other cities as well. (mew) Chicago VIGIL – 3pm to 5pm Sunday, ...

• U.S. State Department Warns that Crime in Honduras Remains Critically High

  The U.S. State Department yesterday updated its travel advisory to Honduras, stating that the level of kidnapping, crime, and violence in Honduras remains “critically high.” (this warning supersedes the last warning in October 2015). The warning states that “criminal activity is a serious problem...

• Immigration Article of the Day: Refugees Under Duress: International Law and the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar by David Baluarte

  Refugees Under Duress: International Law and the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar by David Baluarte, 9 Belmont Law Review 2 (2022) Abstract Kevin Euceda was forcibly recruited by the MS-13 gang when he was just thirteen years old. Kevin was destitute after being abandoned by his parents in San Pedro...

• Certain Questions concerning Diplomatic Relations (Honduras v. Brazil) Case removed from the Court’s List at the request of Honduras

  On October 28, 2009, the Republic of Honduras filed a case in the International Court of Justice against the Federative Republic of Brazil. Honduras alleged that Brazil has been housing Mr. Zelaya, President of Honduras until his removal by the military in June 2009, in the Brazilian embassy in...

• TPS for Honduras Automatically Extended for Six Months

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) automatically extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras for six months through a notice published in the Federal Register.  This was an automatic extension given that DHS did not make a decision on Honduras’ designation that was...

• U.S. Passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas Dies in Roatan

  Last week, a father of four cruising on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship died in Roatan during a stop in that port after he dove into the water from an elevated structure of a pier. Edmund David Rucker, believed to be 52 years of age, was with his wife and family when the tragic accident......

• Assassinations and Death Threats in Honduras

  Assassinations, abductions, and threat continues to grow under the successor to the coup government in Honduras. Human rights activists are calling for more attention to be paid to the ongoing human rights abuses in Honduras.  Click here to read about the assassinations of Adalberto Figueroa,...