Secretary Mayorkas extends and redesignates temporary protected status for Haiti for 18 months | USCIS

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti for an additional 18 months, from February 4, 2023, through August 3, 2023, due to temporary and extraordinary conditions in Haiti. Mayorkas also redesignated Haiti for TPS, allowing Haitian nationals residing in the U.S. as of November 6, 2022, to …

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US will put more efforts into protecting Haitian Orphans for adoption

In light of the Haitian disaster and to protect the Haitian orphans from possible illegal adoptions the USCIS announced that, beginning April 1, 2010, USCIS is centralizing processing and adjudication of all new orphan (Non-Hague) petitions with the agency’s specialized adoptions team at the National Benefits Center (NBC) in Missouri. One adoptive parent must be …

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Adoption of Haitian Orphans in Order to Obtain Lawful Permanent Residents

In regards to Adoption of Haitian Orphans to Obtain Lawful Permanent Residents, USCIS has issued a list of questions and answers that will be used for adoptive parents of paroled Haitian orphans. On obtaining lawful permanent residence (LPR) status and U.S. citizenship. There is a huge need for families in our Haitian Orphans Adoption program. Children …

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Pro bono immigration attorneys in Haiti

Attorneys who are willing to work pro bono to join the effort to help immigration to the US for residents of Haiti devastated by the recent earthquakes. Details about a pro bono training for volunteer attorneys and a weekend pro bono TPS workshop to assist Haitians in preparing TPS applications. Multiple workshops at multiple locations …

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Haitian Orphans Caught in Disaster

Recent allegations of kidnapping of orphan children during the Haitian disaster has prompted tighter security law to come into effect. Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, answered questions to provide a preview of the annual meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat …

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New Requirements for Haitian Refugees

ORR issued a state letter that reviews the definition of “Cuban and Haitian entrant” as it applies to Haitian nationals and clarifies the acceptable documentation that these individuals from the Haitian Republic maybe present when they are applying for ORR-funded benefits and services from the government.

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