As employers have experienced staffing shortages over the last year, the Trump administration has been ending many forms of work authorization by terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the foreign nationals of numerous countries, including Haiti,1 Venezuela,2 Afghanistan, Honduras, and Syria,3 ending the parole for CHNV4 parolees effective May 30, 2025, and eliminating the 540-day extension for TPS-related timely filed EAD renewals.5
Due to the ending of work authorizations for many foreign nationals, DHS introduced a Status Change Report in mid-2025 to inform employers enrolled in E-Verify which employees had had their EADS/work authorizations revoked. DHS stated employers should review these reports to determine whose EADs had been revoked and terminate those employees unless they provided alternative work authorization. The first group affected by this status change were the CHNV parolees (category C11) in mid-2025, who at the time of revocation mainly still possessed