After nearly a year of New York pols shouting from the rooftops for President Biden to grant work permits to over 110,000 migrants in the city, the White
The Homeland Security Department plans to grant Temporary Protected Status to an estimated 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31, 2023.
Officials estimate about 40% of the migrants in New York right now are Venezuelan. This temporary protected status applies to all Venezuelans who came to the U.S. before July 31 of this year.
Under intense political pressure from fellow Democrats, the Biden administration has announced it is granting protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country.
Around 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country before July 31, 2023, will be granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to legally work in the U.S.
Under pressure from fellow Democrats, the Biden administration announced it is granting protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the country.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had been pushing for more than a year to get Venezuelans the temporary protective status that allows them to work in the US.
Under intense political pressure from fellow Democrats, the Biden administration has announced it is granting protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country. The move Wednesday to give Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31, 2023, temporary protected …
The move to give Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31, 2023 temporary protected status essentially makes it much easier and faster for them to get authorization to work in the U.S.
The move, announced late Wednesday, followed intense lobbying by New York Democrats before and during President Biden’s visit to New York City this week.
The Biden administration granted protections to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans amid a surge in illegal immigration at the southern border and stresses on cities across the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced late Wednesday.
The United States will grant temporary deportation relief and access to work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans already in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, a move that follows calls by Democrats to help newly arrived migrants work legally.
The decision comes after leaders of several Democrat-led cities urged the federal government to allow migrants to work as a way to ease financial strains.
Biden will be extending Temporary Protected Status to around 400,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. That status stops deportation and is often applied to people who can't return home safely.
Biden administration officials told reporters that Venezuelans who entered the United States by July 31 would be eligible for temporary protected status.
