TPS Terminations: 13 of 17 Countries Ended, CRS Count Shows

A Congressional Research Service tally updated Oct. 22 counts 13 of 17 TPS countries terminated, covering more than 1.1 million people. What keeps the last four alive is the statute’s own calendar, not new decisions.

TPS terminations under the second Trump administration now reach 13 of the 17 countries that held Temporary Protected Status in January 2025, according to a Congressional Research Service fact sheet updated Oct. 22. Those 13 designations covered 1,103,390 people as of June 25, 2026, while the four still standing, El Salvador, Ukraine, Sudan and Lebanon, covered 343,800, totals calculated from the DHS counts in the CRS table.

The numbers matter now because most of the program’s remaining holders are living past their printed end dates. El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan have all reached theirs, and the fact sheet confirms that as of Oct. 22 no Federal Register notice had announced a decision on any of them. TPS is what lets these people work legally and keeps them from being deported; when a designation ends, holders fall back to whatever other status they have, and many have none.

Three designations make up 95 percent of the TPS terminations

Venezuela’s two designations, Haiti and Honduras together account for 1,050,980 of the 1,103,390 people in terminated programs, or 95.3 percent, based on the CRS figures. South Sudan’s designation, at the other end, covered 230 people.

One caveat cuts the total: CRS says the DHS counts may include people who have since become permanent residents, so the number who actually lost protection is likely smaller than 1.1 million.

Country	Status	Termination or expiration date	Beneficiaries
Venezuela (2021 and 2023 designations)	Terminated	Nov. 7, 2025; April 7, 2025	627,750
Haiti	Terminated	Sept. 2, 2025	353,160
Honduras	Terminated	Sept. 8, 2025	70,070
Nepal	Terminated	Aug. 5, 2025	12,160
Afghanistan	Terminated	July 14, 2025	11,740
Syria	Terminated	Nov. 21, 2025	6,100
Cameroon	Terminated	Aug. 4, 2025	5,460
Ethiopia	Terminated	Feb. 13, 2026	5,010
Burma	Terminated	Jan. 26, 2026	3,970
Nicaragua	Terminated	Sept. 8, 2025	3,850
Yemen	Terminated	May 4, 2026	2,810
Somalia	Terminated	March 17, 2026	1,080
South Sudan	Terminated	Jan. 5, 2026	230
El Salvador	Designated, no decision published	Sept. 9, 2026	224,070
Ukraine	Designated, no decision published	Oct. 19, 2026	117,170
Sudan	Designated, no decision published	Oct. 19, 2026	2,020
Lebanon	Designated	Nov. 27, 2026	540

Source: Congressional Research Service, R49346, updated Oct. 22, 2026. Termination dates are those set in Federal Register notices; litigation delayed several effective dates. Beneficiary counts are DHS figures as of June 25, 2026, and may include people who later became permanent residents.

Why El Salvador, Ukraine, Sudan and Lebanon have not lapsed

The TPS statute, 8 U.S.C. 1254a, requires the DHS secretary to decide at least 60 days before a designation ends whether the country still qualifies. If no decision is made in time, the designation is extended automatically for six months, or 12 or 18 at the secretary’s discretion. A termination also cannot take effect until 60 days after it is published.

DHS has already let that default run once. In May, the Associated Press reported, the department extended Lebanon’s TPS through Nov. 27 after saying in its notice that former Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary Markwayne Mullin “were unable to make an informed determination.” El Salvador’s Sept. 9 date and the Oct. 19 date for Ukraine and Sudan then passed with no notice at all, though DHS told CBS News that Ukrainian and Sudanese holders keep their protection for now.

Applied to those dates, the default rule would carry El Salvador to at least March 9, 2027, and Ukraine and Sudan to at least April 19, 2027. Lebanon’s 60-day decision point was Sept. 28, so the same rule points to May 27, 2027. That timing undercuts a scenario CRS described in a companion report on Sept. 28: that no one would hold TPS by the end of 2026, a first in the program’s 36 years. Under the statute’s calendar, that outcome is now unlikely before spring.

The practical problem is paperwork. Work permits for these groups still show the old end dates, and DHS has issued no Federal Register notice employers can rely on, which is why some Salvadoran retirees say their Social Security checks stopped even though USCIS says their protection continues.

After Mullin v. Doe, the fight moves to Congress

Courts have little left to offer people in the terminated groups. In Mullin v. Doe, decided 6-3 on June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court held that the statute’s bar on judicial review of TPS determinations covers all non-constitutional claims, including challenges to the procedural steps leading up to a termination, a CRS legal analysis explains. The Court, in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, left open whether the bar reaches equal protection claims while finding the Haitian plaintiffs unlikely to win one.

That leaves legislation. According to CRS, the House passed H.R. 1689, which would designate Haiti until April 2029, but a Senate unanimous consent request drew an objection on July 22, and other bills would restrict the program further. Any bill giving TPS holders permanent residence also faces a Senate rule in the TPS statute itself that takes three-fifths of all senators to waive.

CRS frames the underlying dispute as two questions for Congress: what “temporary” should mean for designations that have lasted about nine years on average since 1990, some for more than two decades, and whether long-time holders should have a route to permanent status. The options it lists run in both directions, from requiring an act of Congress for every designation or extension to creating a path to a green card after a set number of years.

What to watch

Federal Register notices on El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan. Any termination would need at least 60 days’ notice before taking effect.
Nov. 27: Lebanon’s current end date, with its 60-day decision point already past.
Senate action on H.R. 1689, the House-passed Haiti designation bill.

This article is for general information and is not legal advice.

Sources

Vasanth Vaidyanathan, Esq.

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Vasanth Vaidyanathan is an immigration attorney with over 20 years of experience focused exclusively on U.S. immigration and nationality law. He holds a LL.M. from California Western School of Law, San Deigo and advises individuals and businesses on employment and family-based immigration matters, including H-1B, PERM, EB categories, and adjustment of status. He has also been a featured speaker at immigration seminars across the U.S. To reach Vasanth visit: https://www.vnathan.com/

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