The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) terminated the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for Yemen. The Yemen TPS designation expires on March 3, 2026. A forthcoming federal register notice will give further information in the coming days.

Yemen initially received a TPS designation in September 2015. The TPS designation was extended multiple times over the next ten years. The most recent extension was for an eighteen-month period from September 2024 to March 2026. The DHS explained the conditions in Yemen improved enough that an extension of TPS designation wasn’t warranted.

Exact reasoning behind the department’s decision is unclear. The federal register post will elaborate on the details. There will be a sixty-day grace period between publication of Yemen’s TPS termination in the federal register and the day TPS protections stop.

The move follows several TPS terminations that occurred over the course of the past year. Since January 2025, the DHS has attempted to terminate TPS designations of the following countries:

• CHNV Parole Program.
  • Cuba.
  • Honduras.
  • Nicaragua.
  • Venezuela.
• South Sudan.
• Sudan.
• Haiti.
• Syria.
• Nepal.
• El Salvador.
• Ethiopia.

Not all the countries listed above lost their TPS designations. Multiple terminations were blocked by federal judges and reaffirmed in circuit court rulings. Yemen TPS beneficiaries should seek alternative sources of legal status before the termination deadline.

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