Shifting TPS Work-Permit Deadlines Leave Hundreds of Thousands Facing Job Loss

On July 10, 2026, hours before work permits were due to lapse, DHS again moved the expiration dates for Temporary Protected Status holders and issued Form I-9 and E-Verify guidance to employers: work authorization for TPS holders from Burma, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen now ends July 17, and for more than 330,000 Haitians on July 24. The dates had already been reset once, from July 1 to July 10. The guidance follows a Supreme Court order in June that allowed the administration to end TPS for Haiti and Syria while litigation continues; the Court did not rule on whether the terminations are lawful. Some employers had already dismissed workers in anticipation of the earlier deadlines. The National Restaurant Association asked DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin for a 90- to 120-day transition period and clearer compliance guidance.

Moving a national work-authorization cliff by days at a time shifts the cost of administrative uncertainty onto workers who lose jobs they were still legally entitled to hold, and onto employers who cannot lawfully guess at the rules. The affected sectors - health care, food processing, construction, hospitality - are ones the administration has said it wants to shield from labor shortages.

The underlying challenges to the TPS terminations continue in the lower courts and could return to the Supreme Court on the merits.