U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Haitian beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status have until July 24 to continue working legally in the U.S. while litigation over the program continues.
USCIS said Employment Authorization Documents issued under TPS remain valid under a court order that temporarily blocks termination of the designation.
The agency said the extension applies only until lower courts implement the Supreme Court's June 25 decision letting the Trump administration move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.
USCIS said beneficiaries should regularly check its TPS Haiti webpage because employment authorization and immigration status remain dependent on developments in the litigation.
USCIS said Employment Authorization Documents issued under TPS categories A12 and C19 remain valid through July 24 under the court order.
The Washington Examiner reported that the extension follows a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for the Trump administration to end TPS for immigrants from Haiti and Syria.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, approximately 1.3 million people from the seven countries have been protected from deportation through TPS.
USCIS said Haitian beneficiaries have until July 24 to continue working legally, while employment authorization extensions for beneficiaries from Syria, Burma, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen expire Friday.
Congress created the TPS designation in 1990 for nationals of countries affected by war, natural disasters, or other extraordinary conditions that temporarily prevent them from safely returning home.
The Department of Homeland Security periodically reviews whether those designations should continue.
The Supreme Court on Thursday let the Trump administration end legal protection for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands to potential deportation.
The 6-3 decision overturned lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end TPS, a program that protects about 1.3 million people from 17 countries.
The Trump administration argued that judges cannot second-guess administration decisions about the protection, which was intended to be temporary.
Immigration attorneys said the countries remain unsafe to return to and argued the administration ended the protection through an unlawfully hasty process tinged by racial animus.