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In situations of environmental disaster such as earthquakes or hurricanes or an outbreak of disease which has reached epidemic proportions an individual may be able to stay in the U.S. as a beneficiary of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This also includes civil war, armed conflict and other extraordinary and temporary conditions. Beneficiaries who are found preliminarily eligible for TPS may obtain employment work authorization (EAD), travel authorization and are not removable from the USA.
Countries that are currently designated to TPS are:
El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan. Syria, Yemen.
The requirements to be eligible for TPS are as follows:
1. You must be a national of a TPS-designated country
2. If you are without nationality, then you must have last habitually resided in a TPS-designated country
3. You have to file during open initial registration or in a re-registration period, unless you meet the requirements for late initial filing during an extension period
4. You must have been continuously physically present in the U.S. since the most recent designation date for your home country
5. You must have been continuously residing in the U.S. since the date specified for your country
You may not be eligible for TPS if any of the following apply to you:
1. You have been convicted of any felony or two or more misdemeanors committed in the U.S.
2. You are found to be inadmissible under certain grounds
3. You are subject to a mandatory bar to asylum due to persecution of another, terrorist activity, or other grounds