Deferred Enforced Departure Extended for Liberians
The employment authorization for qualified Liberian nationals and for those who last resided in Liberia and do not possess nationality and are covered under the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) has been extended through Sept. 30 2010 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This extension has been automatically made as a result of President Obama's decision.
After completion of six months, the existing Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) will be automatically extended. The eligible Liberians will be now allowed to continue working and file their new Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) simultaneously with this automatic extension. The new EADs will cover the whole twelve months of DED extension thus allowing the USCIS to complete the processing of the new EAD's.
The Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberian nationals was programmed to end on March 31, 2010. Yet deferring the deportation of a Liberian, or a person who last resided in Liberia and does not hold a nationality or a person residing in the United States under a grant of DED from the United States as of March 31, 2010 will continue for 18 months. Certain foreign policy reasons call for this continual of DED, as President Obama determined.
As on September 30, 2007, Liberians who did not possess a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are termed ineligible for the Deferred Enforced Departure. A TPS is granted by the USCIS to those eligible nationals from countries that suffered a recent disaster or turmoil. The individuals who are not entitled for the DED, include criminals or defaulters who are barred from Temporary Protected Status and persons whom the United States urges to remove.
In order to instruct the Liberian nationals on how to attain employment authorization through the remaining period of the DED extension, the USCIS will issue a notice in the Federal Register, apart from the extension of the employment authorization for the Liberians covered under the Deferred Enforced Departure.
