people of El Salvador

Salvadorans who fled their country's civil war and were physically present in the U.S. as of September 1990 were granted temporary protected status. Salvador was re-designated for the program because of the damage caused by two earthquakes that devastated the country in 2001. Immigration advocates ...

September 9, 2019: It hangs like a dark cloud over Manuel Flores's entire existence. This is the date that temporary protected status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador—a designation that, for the last 16 years, has granted eligible Salvadorans the ability to live and work legally in the United States—is set to ...

Salvadorans will choose from eight parties to elect 84 representatives for the Legislative Assembly and Municipal Councils for the country's 262 municipalities. El Salvador's political sphere is dominated by two major parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republic Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing FMLN, ...

This evening of music is being presented to benefit the people of El Salvador through donations that will support both ASAPROSAR (Salvadoran Association ... Many Salvadorans live in extreme poverty as a result of government instability, natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.

This evening of music is being presented to benefit the people of El Salvador through donations that will support both ASAPROSAR (Salvadoran Association ... Many Salvadorans live in extreme poverty as a result of government instability, natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.

Otto Madrid is a former temporary protected status holder turned small business owner and citizen who fled El Salvador in 2001 because of devastating earthquakes. After arriving in the U.S., he settled in a Virginia suburb of Washington and got a job as a painter. Now the 38-year-old Salvadoran American ...

The Department of Homeland Security announced that TPS for Salvadorans will receive a final one-time extension until Sept. 9, 2019, but that after this date, the program ends. TPS was originally granted in 2001 as a way to protect the citizens of El Salvador from a series of devastating earthquakes that ...

Santa Cruz immigration attorney Michael Mehr told the Sentinel there are a variety of alternatives to be considered for Salvadorans and other immigrants without citizenship or resident status in the U.S. In March 2017, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Ramirez v. Brown, granted TPS recipients ...

The Palacioses' American dream was put on hold early January after Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen's announcement terminating TPS for Salvadorans. About 200,000 TPS-protected Salvadorans across the U.S. have until September 2019 to return to their birth country, change their ...

There are also some 200,000 Salvadorans who, like Eli, have lived in the US with TPS for 17 years; his status will expire in September 2019, unless he too has some grounds to get a green card — say, if he married a US citizen — or parole at the discretion of USCIS. But the processing backlog for someone ...

haitians-protests-against-trump People take part in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's recent statements and words about immigration crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on January 19, 2018 in New York. U.S. President Trump balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people ...