What changed: Ethiopia TPS terminated Aug. 18 as the court lifts the last stay — 11 of 15 designations terminated; none remain court-stayed

What changed: Ethiopia TPS terminated Aug. 18 as the court lifts the last stay — 11 of 15 designations terminated; none remain court-stayed

What changed: on June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe (Nos. 25-1083/25-1084) that the immigration statute bars courts from reviewing non-constitutional challenges to the Secretary’s TPS termination decisions. For a month, USCIS/E-Verify guidance kept the work permits (EADs) of TPS holders from Haiti (≈352,959 TPS holders) and Syria (6,132) — about 359,091 people in all, per DHS’s own TPS-holder estimates in its termination notices (not a count of issued work permits) — extended per court order, as “limited relief” until each lower court aligned with the ruling. On July 27, 2026 that ended: USCIS moved the Haiti, Syria and Yemen TPS country pages into its archive. The archived pages state each designation is terminated — Haiti and Syria effective July 27, 2026, Yemen effective July 20, 2026 — and the court-order extension language is gone. Four designations still ride on court orders — the Form I-9 dates are now: Aug. 7, 2026 (Burma), Aug. 10, 2026 (South Sudan and Somalia) and Aug. 19, 2026 (Ethiopia). As of Aug. 7, only 4 of 15 TPS designations still fully protect the work permit. Every figure below traces to the country’s USCIS page, its Federal Register notice, and the E-Verify guidance.

Update — July 29, 2026 (E-Verify catches up): USCIS archived the Haiti, Syria and Yemen TPS pages on July 27, 2026; those three terminations are in force and the court-order EAD extension is gone. On July 29, 2026 E-Verify posted superseding guidance for all three: A12/C19 EADs issued under those designations are no longer valid and employers must reverify. Yemen’s guidance now gives the same July 20, 2026 date as the archived page, resolving the earlier conflict with its July 17 guidance. The same day E-Verify moved Somalia’s I-9 date from July 29 to Aug. 3, 2026, matching Burma. (Checked against the USCIS TPS page and the E-Verify What’s New feed, July 29, 2026.)

Update — July 30, 2026 (Ethiopia and South Sudan move to Aug. 6): E-Verify posted superseding guidance for Ethiopia and South Sudan: their EADs remain extended per court order and the Form I-9 date moves from July 30 to Aug. 6, 2026. All four court-stayed designations now sit at Aug. 3, 2026 (Burma, Somalia) or Aug. 6, 2026 (Ethiopia, South Sudan). (Checked against the E-Verify What’s New feed, July 31, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 3, 2026 (Burma and Somalia split apart): E-Verify posted superseding guidance for Burma (replacing July 27) and Somalia (replacing July 29) on the same day. Both designations stay extended per court order, but the Form I-9 dates no longer match: Somalia moves from Aug. 3 to Aug. 5, 2026, Burma from Aug. 3 to Aug. 7, 2026. With Ethiopia and South Sudan still at Aug. 6, all four court-stayed designations now carry a different date. Both USCIS country pages remain live — neither has been archived. (Checked against the USCIS TPS page and the E-Verify What’s New feed, Aug. 4, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 5, 2026 (Somalia jumps to Aug. 10 and becomes the last of the four): E-Verify posted superseding Somalia guidance (replacing Aug. 3): the EADs stay extended per court order under African Communities Together v. Noem (No. 26-cv-11201, D. Mass.), and the Form I-9 date moves from Aug. 5 to Aug. 10, 2026. Two things are new about this one. It is a five-day step, where every earlier Somalia move ran two to five days at a time from July 29 → Aug. 3 → Aug. 5; and it puts Somalia last in the queue instead of first — Ethiopia and South Sudan (Aug. 6) and Burma (Aug. 7) now come due before it. The USCIS Somalia page has still not been archived. (Checked against the USCIS TPS page and the E-Verify What’s New feed, Aug. 5, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 6, 2026 (Ethiopia jumps to Aug. 19; South Sudan joins Somalia at Aug. 10): E-Verify posted superseding guidance for Ethiopia and South Sudan (each replacing July 30) on the day their shared Aug. 6 date came due. Both stay extended per court order under African Communities Together v. Noem (Ethiopia: No. 26-cv-10278-BEM, D. Mass.; South Sudan: No. 25-cv-13939-PBS, D. Mass.). South Sudan’s Form I-9 date moves from Aug. 6 to Aug. 10, 2026, landing on the same day as Somalia; Ethiopia’s moves from Aug. 6 to Aug. 19, 2026, a 13-day step that makes it the furthest out of the four. The queue now runs Burma (Aug. 7), South Sudan and Somalia (Aug. 10), Ethiopia (Aug. 19). Neither USCIS country page has been archived. (Checked against the USCIS TPS page and the E-Verify What’s New feed, Aug. 7, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 7, 2026 (Burma and South Sudan terminated): on the day Burma’s Aug. 7 I-9 date came due, USCIS archived the Burma (Myanmar) and South Sudan TPS country pages, and E-Verify guidance issued the same day states both designations are terminated, effective Aug. 7, 2026 — Form I-766 EADs with category A12 or C19 issued under them are no longer valid, and employers must reverify. South Sudan was cut three days short of the Aug. 10, 2026 I-9 date its Aug. 6 guidance had promised. Two designations remain extended per court order: Somalia (Aug. 10) and Ethiopia (Aug. 19).

Update — Aug. 10, 2026 (Somalia moves to Aug. 12 — a two-day step, and it is first again): on the day Somalia’s Aug. 10 I-9 date came due, E-Verify posted superseding Somalia guidance (replacing Aug. 5). The EADs stay extended per court order under African Communities Together v. Noem (No. 26-cv-11201, D. Mass.), and the Form I-9 date moves from Aug. 10 to Aug. 12, 2026. That is a two-day step, after five-day jumps on July 29 → Aug. 3 and Aug. 5 → Aug. 10. With Burma and South Sudan terminated, only two designations remain stayed, and Somalia is again the earlier of the two — Ethiopia sits at Aug. 19. One thing worth knowing if you track these yourself: the release title does not tell you which way it went. Burma’s Aug. 7 termination was also posted as “Update on Termination” — only the text distinguishes an extension from a cut. The USCIS Somalia TPS page is still live, not archived. (Checked against the E-Verify What’s New feed and the USCIS TPS page, Aug. 11, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 12, 2026 (Somalia moves to Aug. 14 — a second two-day step): on the day Somalia’s Aug. 12 I-9 date came due, E-Verify posted superseding Somalia guidance (replacing Aug. 10). The EADs stay extended per court order under African Communities Together v. Noem (No. 26-cv-11201, D. Mass.), and the Form I-9 date moves from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14, 2026. That is the second consecutive two-day step, and the third release in a row posted on the very day the prior date came due. Somalia remains the earlier of the two designations still stayed — Ethiopia sits at Aug. 19. The USCIS Somalia TPS page is still live, not archived. (Checked against the E-Verify What’s New feed and the USCIS TPS page, Aug. 14, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 14, 2026 (Somalia terminated — the stay is lifted): on the day Somalia’s Aug. 14 I-9 date came due, the District of Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Noem (No. 26-cv-11201) that had paused the termination; the plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal the same day. E-Verify posted superseding Somalia guidance the same day (replacing Aug. 12): the designation is terminated, effective Aug. 14, 2026 — Form I-766 EADs with category A12 or C19 are no longer valid, and employers must reverify. Ethiopia’s stay survived the same day: the court in its case (No. 26-cv-10278, D. Mass.) denied the government’s motion to lift it, so Ethiopia (Aug. 19, 2026) is now the only designation still extended per court order. Unlike Burma and South Sudan, the USCIS Somalia page had not yet moved to the archive when checked. (Checked against the E-Verify What’s New feed and the USCIS TPS page, Aug. 15, 2026.)

Update — Aug. 18, 2026 (Ethiopia terminated — the last stay is lifted): Judge Brian E. Murphy of the District of Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Noem (No. 1:26-cv-10278-BEM, ECF 103) — granting the government’s motion to dismiss as to Counts I-IV and VI-VIII, denying it as to Count V, denying the plaintiffs’ motion to postpone the termination as moot, and ordering a joint proposed discovery and briefing schedule by Aug. 25, 2026. USCIS moved the Ethiopia TPS page to the archive the same day, and E-Verify guidance issued Aug. 18, 2026 (superseding Aug. 6) states the designation is terminated, effective Aug. 18, 2026 — Form I-766 EADs with category A12 or C19 are no longer valid, and employers must reverify. Ethiopia’s promised Form I-9 date was Aug. 19 — it was cut one day short, the third time in this sequence a promised date became the cut (South Sudan lost three days, Somalia’s date became its termination date). No TPS designation is court-stayed any more, so there is no pending Form I-9 date left to watch. (Checked against the E-Verify What’s New feed, the USCIS TPS page and the court docket via RECAP, Aug. 19, 2026.)

As of 2026-08-19, only 4 of 15 TPS designations still fully protect the work permit. On Aug. 18, 2026 the District of Massachusetts lifted the last administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Noem — Judge Brian E. Murphy dismissed most counts, let Count V proceed, and ordered a joint discovery schedule by Aug. 25 — USCIS archived the Ethiopia page the same day, and E-Verify posted Ethiopia guidance: the designation is terminated, effective Aug. 18, 2026, A12/C19 EADs are no longer valid, and employers must reverify. No TPS designation is court-stayed any more — there is no pending Form I-9 date left to watch.

Snapshot as of 2026-08-19, from each country's USCIS TPS page and the cited Federal Register notices; population figures are DHS's own estimates from those notices where DHS gives one (Haiti, Syria), otherwise the National Immigration Forum's. TPS is in active litigation and changes frequently — confirm the current Federal Register notice and your country's USCIS page. Not legal advice.

Status re-check: October 9, 2026

We re-read the live USCIS, E-Verify and Federal Register sources on October 9, 2026. The four designations that are not terminated stand as follows in those sources:

• Sudan and Ukraine reach October 19, 2026 ten days after this check, and their two official surfaces now differ the way El Salvador’s did. USCIS lists each designation as running through Oct. 19, 2026; E-Verify’s Sept. 3, 2026 guidance tells employers each is “set to terminate” that day. The same E-Verify guidance says USCIS is sending notices that extend qualifying expired A12/C19 EADs to Oct. 19, 2026, and tells employers to enter “Oct. 19, 2026” in the Form I-9 expiration-date fields. Neither USCIS country page carried a termination alert on Oct. 9.
• No new Federal Register document. Federal Register documents API searches run Oct. 9, 2026 return no termination, extension or redesignation notice for Sudan, Ukraine or El Salvador after the Jan. 17, 2025 extensions (positive control: Lebanon’s 2026-10704 of May 29, 2026 still returns). The public-inspection desk listed no TPS document that day.
• E-Verify’s newest TPS items are still the Sept. 3, 2026 releases for El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan, as listed on the What’s New feed on Oct. 9, 2026.
• What the statute says about timing. 8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(3) requires a review “At least 60 days before end of the initial period of designation, and any extended period of designation”. A termination is made “by publishing notice in the Federal Register” and “shall not be effective earlier than 60 days after the date the notice is published or, if later, the expiration of the most recent previous extension”. If no determination that the country no longer meets the conditions is made, “the period of designation of the foreign state is extended for an additional period of 6 months (or, in the discretion of the Attorney General, a period of 12 or 18 months)”. No outcome, end date or continuation period for Sudan, Ukraine or El Salvador is asserted here. Check your country’s USCIS page and the Federal Register directly.

How to read the status table

• Active: the USCIS country page lists a designation end date that had not passed on the snapshot date (Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine). Active does not mean an extension has been announced; see the re-check above for Sudan and Ukraine.
• Announcement pending: El Salvador only. Its listed end date (Sept. 9, 2026) has passed, USCIS says protection continues until an announcement, and no Federal Register notice has followed the January 17, 2025 extension notice (FR 2025-00626).
• Terminating: the termination is in force while an appeal is pending (Honduras, Nicaragua, Ethiopia).
• Terminated: the termination is in effect and E-Verify guidance says the A12/C19 EADs issued under the designation are no longer valid (Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Burma, South Sudan, Somalia). Both Venezuela designations are also terminated and in effect; see the Venezuela note below for the 2023-designation EADs.
• Stayed — at risk: a termination paused by a court order. No designation has carried this label since Aug. 18, 2026.
• The date in the table is the designation’s key date, not the date printed on any individual card. Your own EAD, the USCIS notice you received, and your country’s Federal Register notice decide your dates.
• The “As of” date above the table is the dataset snapshot. The Oct. 9, 2026 re-check is newer and covers only the sources it names.

What changed since June 25

• Haiti and Syria: the reprieve ended. Their EADs had been set to lapse July 1, 2026 after the Supreme Court ruling (Haiti: 90 FR 54733; Syria: 90 FR 45398), and USCIS/E-Verify guidance kept them extended per court order — Haiti under Miot v. Trump (D.D.C.), Syria under Dahlia Doe v. Noem (S.D.N.Y.) — through a July 27, 2026 Form I-9 date. On July 27, 2026 USCIS archived both country pages: each designation is now terminated, effective July 27, 2026, with the extension language removed.
• Burma (Myanmar) and South Sudan: terminated Aug. 7, 2026. USCIS archived both country pages on the day Burma’s I-9 date came due, and E-Verify guidance issued the same day states both designations are terminated, effective Aug. 7, 2026 — A12/C19 EADs are no longer valid and employers must reverify. South Sudan was cut three days short of the Aug. 10 date its Aug. 6 guidance had promised.
• Somalia: terminated Aug. 14, 2026. On the day its promised I-9 date came due, the D. Mass. court lifted the stay in African Communities Together v. Noem and E-Verify guidance issued the same day declared its A12/C19 EADs no longer valid (the plaintiffs appealed; the USCIS page had still not been archived when re-checked Aug. 19).
• Ethiopia: terminated Aug. 18, 2026 — and with it, the last stay. Judge Brian E. Murphy lifted the administrative stay (No. 1:26-cv-10278, ECF 103), USCIS archived the country page, and E-Verify guidance issued the same day declared its A12/C19 EADs no longer valid. Its promised I-9 date was Aug. 19, so it was cut one day short. No TPS termination is court-paused any more — the “limited relief” phase that began with the June 25 ruling is over.
• Yemen: the two official dates now agree. The archived USCIS page says the designation terminated July 20, 2026 (91 FR 10402). E-Verify’s July 17 guidance had told employers to enter July 24, 2026 on Form I-9 — a conflict we cited both ways until July 29, 2026, when superseding E-Verify guidance adopted the July 20, 2026 date and declared the A12/C19 EADs no longer valid.
• Not terminated: El Salvador (announcement pending — see the next bullet), Lebanon (November 27, 2026), and Sudan and Ukraine (October 19, 2026).
• El Salvador: the two official surfaces say different things, and we do not say which one controls. Checked September 9, 2026 and again September 10, 2026: USCIS has not archived the El Salvador TPS page, and both the USCIS TPS page and the El Salvador country page carry this alert — “An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time. Until such announcement is made, Salvadoran individuals present in the U.S. under TPS retain protection including work authorization.” The page still lists “TPS Continued Through: Sept. 9, 2026” and “EAD Auto-Extended by FRN Through: March 9, 2026” (a date that has passed). Meanwhile E-Verify’s guidance of Sept. 3, 2026 — still the newest El Salvador item on its What’s New feed — says the designation “and related benefits are set to terminate on Sept. 9, 2026” and tells employers to enter Sept. 9, 2026 on Form I-9 and in E-Verify. And there is no Federal Register document of any kind for El Salvador TPS — no extension, no redesignation, no termination — neither in the Federal Register documents API (positive control: Lebanon’s 2026-10704 still returns) nor on the public-inspection desk. No outcome, no end date and no continuation period is asserted here. The distinction that decides what happens at work: 8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(3)(C) extends a DESIGNATION when no timely determination is made, whereas Lebanon’s EADs were extended by the notice itself (“Through this Federal Register notice, DHS automatically extends the validity of EADs”). Full detail with both sources quoted: TPS for El Salvador.
• Venezuela and Honduras/Nicaragua: terminations already in force from earlier rulings; Venezuela’s 2023-designation EADs issued on or before February 5, 2025 were valid through October 2, 2026 and have now expired (no further extension announced as of October 5, 2026).
• The count, so you can check it: of the 15 designations tracked in the table above, 11 are terminated — eight where the termination is simply in effect (Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Burma, South Sudan, Somalia and both Venezuela designations) and three in force with an appeal pending (Honduras, Nicaragua, Ethiopia). The remaining four are not terminated: El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine. Seven of the eleven were cut in the sequence that followed the June 25, 2026 ruling; the other four were already terminated before it.

What TPS holders can do

This is general information, not legal advice, and does not assess your eligibility:

1. Confirm the exact date on your EAD on your country’s USCIS page and Federal Register notice — the work-authorization end date is specific to each person and country.
2. Explore other options with a qualified provider (family petitions, asylum, or other protections). This page does not assess eligibility.
3. Get free help from a BIA-recognized organization or a legal-aid clinic: free legal help by state.

See also our TPS by country guide, the TPS termination litigation case, and Form I-765 (work permit).

Method

The table’s snapshot date is printed above it. It is taken from each country’s USCIS TPS page (including the archived Haiti, Syria and Yemen pages), the Federal Register notices cited per country, and the USCIS/E-Verify per-country TPS guidance (linked per country in the table). Population figures are DHS’s own estimates from its termination notices where DHS gives one (Haiti, Syria), otherwise the National Immigration Forum fact sheet. The Oct. 9, 2026 re-check above covers the USCIS TPS page, the El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon country pages, the E-Verify What’s New feed and its Sept. 3, 2026 releases, the Federal Register documents API and public-inspection desk, and the statute. The ruling is Mullin v. Doe (Nos. 25-1083/25-1084), decided June 25, 2026, 6-3. TPS is in active litigation and changes frequently; this is a dated snapshot — we re-verify as the USCIS pages and Federal Register notices change.

Download the data: tps_work_permits.csv · tps_work_permits.json — country, status, work permit, key date, Federal Register cite, litigation docket, people affected, and source. Free to reuse with attribution.

Suggested citation: MigrantUSA, “TPS work-permit status by country (July 2026),” migrantusa.com/datasets/tps-work-permit-status/, retrieved [date].

Related

• TPS by country (2026) — current designations, terminations, and dates
• TPS termination litigation — the Supreme Court case
• Form I-765 (work permit / EAD)
• Free legal help by state
• All open datasets — verified immigration data, free to download
• Find an immigration attorney — how to find licensed and accredited help (no commission, no paid placement)

This is general information, not legal advice. TPS status and work authorization are changing quickly and are specific to your country and your case. Consult an attorney for your specific situation.