Reeves Immigration Law Group Partner Eric Welsh was recently featured in KSL.com’s article “Expansion of this immigration program could help thousands of Venezuelans in Utah,” which examines the Department of Homeland Security’s recent decision to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelan migrants.
The revised cutoff date extends to those who arrived in the country on or before July 31, 2023. Eric explains, “It’s meant to help those people who are already here, who have already managed that terrible, long journey, and who are in a circumstance where they can’t go back, but it’s certainly not meant to be an open door for Venezuelans to come now.” He continues to tell KSL, that TPS serves to fill a gap in humanitarian immigration laws while migrants consider other more permanent pathways such as citizenship or permanent residency, saying, “Asylum is a pathway to permanent status, to a green card if you can show that it’s unsafe for you to go back because your government hates you because of some characteristic that you have. But TPS says, ‘You don’t have to be that particular; we just don’t want you to be in harm’s way.'”
The full article can be found below.
Expansion of this immigration program could help thousands of Venezuelans in Utah
