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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended and redesignated Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, from June 13, 2024, through Dec. 12, 2025. Individuals with a pending or approved TPS application may qualify for certain public benefits and REAL ID driver’s licenses and identification cards. When applying for a federal, state, or local government benefit, individuals will need to show a document proving they applied for or are beneficiaries of TPS for Ethiopia. They may provide a TPS Employment Authorization Document (EAD) with a category code of A12 or C19, or a copy of their Form I-797, Notice of Action, for a current Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status. Given the time frames for processing TPS re-registration applications, USCIS has automatically extended through June 12, 2025, the validity of EADs with a Card Expires date of June 12, 2024, issued under the prior TPS designation of Ethiopia. TPS Ethiopia applicants or beneficiaries presenting an auto-extended EAD do not need to show any other document, such as a Form I-797 or I-797C, Notice of Action, to prove that they qualify for the EAD auto-extension.

On April 8, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a second temporary final rule (89 FR 24628) temporarily increasing the automatic extension period for employment authorization and/or Employment Authorization Documents (EAD, Form I-766) to up to 540 days. This temporary increase is available to certain individuals who timely filed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, renewal applications on or before Sept. 30, 2025. Previously, the EAD auto-extension was only up to 180 days for EAD renewal applications received by USCIS on or after Oct. 27, 2023.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services invites SAVE user agency points of contact and Web Services developers to participate in one of the following SAVE Interface Control Agreement version 38 (ICA v38) Listening Sessions:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) now provides a Verification of Release (VOR) card to some noncitizen unaccompanied children. The VOR card is a new wallet-sized, plastic version of the VOR form, which will continue to be issued.

We have created a new SAVE Engagement Event Summaries webpage to share feedback and lessons learned from our engagement events. Stay tuned for updates as future events occur.

A new law provides immigrant visas to certain foreign national employees of the U.S. government abroad. Specifically, foreign nationals (and their spouses and children) may receive special immigrant visas when:

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended and redesignated Burma for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, from May 26, 2024, through Nov. 25, 2025.

SAVE Resumes Services SAVE service has been restored. Benefit-granting agencies are once again able to fully access their SAVE accounts and process cases. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.