The Temporary Protected Status periods for Ukraine and Sudan came to their scheduled end on October 19, 2026, and the government has not said what happens next. USCIS is telling people covered by the two designations that nothing changes for now.
On its TPS pages for both countries, last updated October 19, USCIS carries the same notice: “An announcement on Ukraine’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time. Until such announcement is made, Ukrainian individuals present in the U.S. under TPS retain protection including work authorization.” The Sudan page uses identical wording for Sudanese nationals. The pages list Ukraine as designated through October 19, 2026, and Sudan as continuing through the same date under the extension announced in the Federal Register notice of January 17, 2025. Sudan’s page cites that notice at 90 FR 5944; Ukraine’s cites 90 FR 5936.
No new Federal Register notice extending, redesignating or terminating either country’s TPS has been published since those January 2025 notices, according to a search of the Federal Register for Temporary Protected Status documents from the Department of Homeland Security. That leaves a gap between the date printed on the USCIS pages and the absence of a document either continuing or ending the designations. The re-registration windows that came with the January 2025 extensions ran from January 17 to March 18, 2025, and USCIS has not opened a new registration period for either country.
What this means in practice is that the agency’s published position, not a new regulation, is what holds protections in place for now. People covered by the two designations keep TPS and work authorization while they wait, but the status of the program past October 19 rests on an announcement the agency says is still to come, and a future notice could extend the designations, redesignate the countries, or end protection with a wind-down period.
For employment-based readers, TPS sits outside the EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 and H-1B categories and does not change priority dates or cutoff dates. It matters to employers and to people who hold TPS while an employment-based petition or adjustment application is pending, because a lapse in work authorization can interrupt employment even when the green-card case is moving. Anyone relying on the designations should read the USCIS country pages and wait for the agency’s own notice rather than a summary, since the pages carry the operative dates.
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