The Biden administration mentioned Thursday it was giving momentary authorized standing to Afghan migrants who’ve already been dwelling within the nation for a bit of over a 12 months.

The Department of Homeland Security mentioned within the announcement that the choice to offer Temporary Protected Status to Afghans who arrived after March 15, 2022, and earlier than Sept. 20, 2023, would have an effect on roughly 14,600 Afghans.

This standing would not give affected Afghans a long-term proper to remain within the nation or a path to citizenship. It’s good till 2025, when it must be renewed once more. But it does shield them from deportation and provides them the flexibility to work within the nation.

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A comparatively small variety of individuals are affected. On Thursday the administration introduced it was giving Temporary Protected Status to just about 500,000 Venezuelans within the nation.

But many Afghans who would profit from the brand new protections took huge dangers in attending to the U.S., typically after exhausting all different choices to flee the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Supporters have argued that they’re deserving of safety.

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“Today’s decision is a clear recognition of the ongoing country conditions in Afghanistan, which have continued to deteriorate under Taliban rule,” Eskinder Negash, who heads the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, mentioned in a press release.

Separately, the Department additionally continued the protected standing for a smaller group of Afghans — about 3,100 individuals. That group already had safety however the administration should recurrently renew it.

The information Thursday wouldn’t have an effect on tens of hundreds of different Afghans who got here to the nation through the August 2021 American airlift out of Kabul or Afghans who’ve come over time on particular immigrant visas meant for individuals who labored carefully with the U.S. navy or authorities.READ