U.S.: DHS keeps TPS for Ukrainians and Sudanese while it decides the program's future

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will keep Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in place, for now, for immigrants from Ukraine and Sudan, whose protections were set to expire on Monday. The decision keeps both groups from immediately losing their work permits and protection from deportation, according to CBS News as reported by La Opinión.

TPS allows people from countries where returning is unsafe due to wars, disasters or other extraordinary circumstances to live and work legally in the United States. "Final decisions on the future of humanitarian immigration programs will be made at the appropriate time," DHS said, adding that Ukrainian and Sudanese nationals enrolled in the program "will maintain their protection."

For Ukrainians, TPS was announced in 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion. As of March 2025, more than 100,000 Ukrainians were enrolled in the program, according to the figures cited by CBS News. For Sudan, the benefit has existed since the late 1990s due to armed conflict and political instability; as of March 2025, about 1,800 Sudanese held the protection.

The move comes amid an immigration policy that has cut other temporary protections: over the past year and a half, the Donald Trump administration stripped benefits from more than a million immigrants of various nationalities, including citizens of Afghanistan, Haiti and Venezuela. DHS has yet to announce whether it will extend or definitively end TPS for Ukrainians and Sudanese; until then, thousands of people can continue living and working without facing immediate deportation.

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