United States | Court temporarily blocks TPS terminations for Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua

A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with recent terminations of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua until Nov. 18, 2025.

Key Points:

• Federal Judge Trina Thompson for the United States District Court Northern District of California entered an order on July 31, 2025, to postpone the terminations of TPS designations for Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua until a subsequent court hearing on Nov. 18, 2025, at which time the postponement could be extended.
• The lawsuit was originally filed on July 7, 2025, by plaintiffs that included the National TPS Alliance, an immigration services organization with over 1,000 Honduran, Nepali and Nicaraguan TPS holders.
• In issuing the order, Thompson stated, “The Court’s authority to grant relief against agency actions is therefore rooted in the [Administrative Procedure Act’s] legislative history, which indicates that the Court must serve ‘as a check upon administrators whose zeal might otherwise have carried them to excesses not contemplated in legislation creating their offices.’”
• The Trump administration is expected to appeal the ruling and to ask the courts to allow the terminations to go into effect while the appeal is pending.

Additional Information: On June 6, the Department of Homeland Security published notice in the Federal Register that the designation of Nepal for TPS will terminate on Aug. 5, 2025.

On July 8, DHS announced the termination of TPS for both Honduras and Nicaragua, effective Sept. 8, 2025.

The current decision affects the status of about 60,000 foreign nationals from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua. The complete court order can be read here.

BAL will continue to monitor this litigation and related cases.

This alert has been provided by the BAL U.S. Practice Group.

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