Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepali Nationals living in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) have been lobbying to extend for a time being after the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated process to cancel the temporary residency permits of about 9,000 Nepali immigrants.
The US government has already initiated process to expel foreigners including Nepalese living in the US with some form of provisional status like TPS.
Quoting to the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, various media have reported that the Trump administration is planning to give the Nepalese a one-year grace period to prepare for their departure or face a forceful deportation after June 24, 2019.
The US government had extended the TPS for about one year period to the Nepalese nationals living in the US after devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015 in Nepal.
As there is no reason to seek extension of the TPS, Nepal government would not seek a TPS extension to the 9,000 Nepali nationals living in the United States, though they have been lobbying from different channels, an officials at Ministry of Foreign Affairs MoFA) said preferring anonymity.
The Trump administration has been following strictly the TPS though it was brought in practice since 1990.
