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• 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...

• DHS Statement on Activist Judge Delaying TPS Termination for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a statement after a federal judge in California postponed the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua, finding the cancellation was rooted in “racial animus.”  Expect an appeal. KJ

• Federal court delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese

  NPR reports that a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. The decision delays the terminations of TPS until November and affects about 60,000 immigrants, many of whom have been living in the U.S. for years. Here is the court order. KJ  

• Actualizaciones acerca del TPS para Honduras, Nicaragua y Haití

  View English Version Here. Honduras y Nicaragua El día 7 de julio de 2025, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (“DHS” por “Department of Homeland Security”) aún no había tomado una determinación sobre si Honduras y/o Nicaragua siguen satisfaciendo las condiciones para la designación del Estatus de Protección Temporal (“TPS” por “Temporary Protected Status”). De acuerdo...

• TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua Ends: What Employers Need to Know About the 60-Day Work Authorization Extension

  By: Dawn Lurie As we have covered in prior blog posts on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as it continues to evolve, this week brings significant developments. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the termination of TPS designations for Honduras and Nicaragua via separate press releases. The Federal Register notices followed on July 8th (Honduras...

• DHS Terminates TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua

  Ver la versión en español aquí On July 8, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Honduras and Nicaragua. The termination of TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua will take effect on September 8, 2025. The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) published the termination notices in the July...

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• USCIS Extends Temporary Protected Status for Honduras and Nicaragua

  On November 4, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) extended the Temporary Protected Status designation for Honduras and Nicaragua for a period of eighteen (18) months, until July 5, 2013.  Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a temporary immigration status granted to eligible...

• Temporary Protected Status for Honduras to End in January 2020

  In a not unexpected move, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen M. Nielsen, announced on May 4, 2018 that Temporary Protected Status would terminate for Honduras on January 5, 2020. This will give the approximately 60,000 Honduran TPS beneficiaries eighteen months to arrange for their...

• Man Overboard from Carnival Glory

  There is a report of a “man overboard” this afternoon from the Carnival Glory cruise ship.  A reader from Honduras listening to channel 16 heard the report and said that the Honduran Navy and locals were searching for a person overboard at certain coordinates in Honduran waters. A person also...

• Honduran TPS Transmitted to OMB for Final Review

  On Jan. 5, 2018, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)  extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras for six months with a July 5, 2018 expiration date.  On May 24, 2108, DHS transmitted a Notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that indicates final action on...

• Woman Sexually Assaulted on Celebrity Millennium

  The Juneau Empire reports that a 40-year-old cruise ship worker from Honduras.was caught sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman, also a crew member, from Ottawa, Canada. On July 12th at 2:30 A.M., the woman reportedly had “left the crew bar and was walking back to her room alone when a man she...

• Crew Member Assaults Passenger Aboard HAL’s Nieuw Amsterdam During “Bare Necessities” Cruise

  Cruise Critic reports that a Holland America Line (HAL) crew member assaulted a woman aboard HAL’s Nieuw Amsterdam yesterday. According to Cruise Critic, HAL released the following statement: “A 31-year-old female U.S. citizen on board ms Nieuw Amsterdam was assaulted by a crewmember in her cabin...

• DHS Extends TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua

  DHS announced today that it is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduran and Nicaraguan nationals who already hold TPS.  TPS allows qualifying individuals to remain and work lawfully in the United States until conditions in their home countries improve.  The new extensions allow...

• Temporary Protected Status for Honduras to End

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that because the conditions in Honduras no longer support its designation for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the designation set to expire on July 15, 2018, will terminate on January 5, 2020.  This conclusion is at odds with the State...

• DHS Extends TPS for Honduras for Only 6 Months

  DHS announced that it is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras who already hold TPS. TPS allows qualifying individuals to remain and work lawfully in the United States until conditions in their home countries improve.  The new extension allows qualifying individuals...

• Does an adjudication of paternity = “adoption” for purposes of Florida’s pretermitted child statute?

  Estate of Maher v. Iglikova, — So.3d —-, 2014 WL 1386660 (Fla. 3d DCA April 09, 2014) In 2004 James Maher’s small twin-engine plane went missing somewhere over the jungle between Honduras and Costa Rica (see here). His body was never found. Maher executed a valid will in 2001. Under F.S. 733.209 Mah...