‘Anything for my family’: Venezuelans in US welcome temporary protected status
by Coral Murphy Marcos from US news | The Guardian on (#6F1TQ)
Asylum seekers who arrived before the end of July - about 472,000 - will now be able to legally live and work in the US
Venezuelan asylum seekers in the United States have welcomed the news of temporary permission to live and work in the country as a vital helping hand" after the Biden administration announced that it would extend temporary protected status (TPS) to nearly half a million Venezuelan nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that the TPS extension now includes those who arrived in the US by the end of July, whereas the previous cutoff date was 8 March 2021.
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