Overview
- Approximately 6,000 Syrian nationals are covered by the injunction that has kept their Temporary Protected Status in place.
- U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla blocked the termination in November 2025, and the Second Circuit declined to stay her order.
- DOJ argues lower courts are disregarding Supreme Court precedent, including recent rulings involving Venezuelan TPS, and urges the justices to allow the policy to proceed.
- USCIS’s recent actions underscore a shifting landscape: Yemen’s notice to end TPS was published on February 13, 2026 with a 60‑day wind‑down, Somalia’s protections are set to end March 17, 2026, and Venezuela’s 2021/2023 designations have ended with limited document‑holder exceptions through October 2, 2026.
- Court orders have created divergent outcomes by country, with a judge keeping Haiti’s program provisionally active a day before its planned end and a February 9 appeals ruling allowing cancellations for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua to move forward.