A federal judge blocked the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, announced on June 27, 2025.
In February, DHS reduced Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation from 18 months to 12 months, with the designation set to expire on August 3, 2025. After reviewing the conditions in Haiti, Secretary of Homeland Security Noem determined that Haiti no longer meets the eligibility requirements for a TPS designation. Review of a country’s conditions (for TPS purposes) must be completed at least 60 days before the designation is set to expire.
On July 1st, however, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan blocked Haiti’s TPS termination on grounds that Haitian nationals living in the United States through TPS were provided insufficient notice of the termination. Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status was originally extended by the Biden Administration until February 3, 2026, but was reduced by 6 months with the new expiration effective September 2, 2025. Judge Cogan wrote in a 23-page opinion that moving up Haiti’s TPS termination by 5 months is unlawful, especially considering that many Haitian TPS beneficiaries have been in the country for over a decade. The TPS termination would affect over 350,000 Haitian nationals currently in our country.
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