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September 8, 2026

Correction: USCIS DID act on Executive Order 14418 — we said it had published nothing, on 28 pages

September 8, 2026

Sudan and Ukraine TPS: USCIS is mailing notices that extend expired work permits to Oct. 19 — our pages implied they had lapsed

September 8, 2026

El Salvador TPS: E-Verify says it terminates Sept. 9, but no Federal Register notice exists — we now publish both halves

Birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court

The other agencies' guidance, and any challenge to State's plan. The State Department published its implementation plan on September 4, 2026; as of September 5, USCIS/DHS, the Social Security Administration and the Justice Department had not. Watch for those, for the attestation State says must be submitted by each parent with a child's DS-11 when neither is a citizen, for any modification of the plan (it calls itself proposed and subject to change), and for litigation over the foreign-government-employee category, which State reads to include locally hired consular staff who are nationals of the sending country. Whether that reading survives review is unresolved.

Last checked: 2026-09-08

TPS termination litigation

There is no dated Form I-9 milestone left — every court-stayed TPS termination has taken effect. The live dates are litigation dates. In Ethiopia's case (No. 1:26-cv-10278, D. Mass.) the Aug. 25, 2026 deadline for a joint discovery and briefing schedule on the surviving Count V passed with no schedule filed: the government moved that same day, with the plaintiffs' assent (ECF 105), to push the deadline to Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, stating that the parties had conferred several times without reaching agreement and that the Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the case left the U.S. Attorney's Office on Aug. 21, 2026, leaving some 146 cases from two departing AUSAs to be managed. The court entered an order on that motion on Aug. 26, 2026, but the ruling text is not yet public on the docket — and this judge denied a different extension motion in this same case on Aug. 5, 2026 — so Aug. 31 is the date the parties asked for, not a confirmed one. The plaintiffs' appeal of the Aug. 14 Somalia order is also pending, and the USCIS TPS hub still had not moved Somalia to the archive as of Aug. 19, 2026. Burma (Myanmar) and South Sudan were terminated Aug. 7, 2026, Somalia Aug. 14 and Ethiopia Aug. 18 — three of them earlier than their own guidance had promised. These dates are ceilings, not schedules.

Last checked: 2026-09-08

DACA work permits (Texas case)

Judge Hanen to issue an implementing order (supplemental briefing finished November 2025); no date set — it could issue at any time.

Last checked: 2026-09-01

In-state tuition for undocumented students

Virginia order awaited after the July 7, 2026 hearing; Massachusetts response due September 8, 2026; Eighth Circuit (Minnesota) and Sixth Circuit (Kentucky) appeals pending; Kansas proposed consent decree awaiting court action; MALDEF has said it will seek further review in the Texas intervention case.

Last checked: 2026-08-26