{"id":18339,"date":"2026-07-25T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/bill-to-extend-temp-protected-status-for-afghans-in-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:00:19","slug":"bill-to-extend-temp-protected-status-for-afghans-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/bill-to-extend-temp-protected-status-for-afghans-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Afghan Nationals in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Democratic and Republican members of the US House of Representatives have introduced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) period for eligible Afghan citizens in the United States. If passed, this measure would prevent their forced return to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to an American newspaper, the bill&#8217;s sponsors emphasized that &#8220;Afghans who supported US military efforts during the 20-year war should not be sent back to Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The office of Jason Crow, a Democratic representative from Colorado, stated in a press release that the &#8220;Afghanistan Temporary Protected Status Act&#8221; has been introduced to the House by Jason Crow, Ted Lieu, a Democratic representative from California, Don Bacon, a Republican representative from Nebraska, and Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican representative from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary Protected Status is a program under US immigration law that allows nationals from countries experiencing crisis or insecurity to reside and work in the United States for a designated period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers from both parties introduce a bill to extend Temporary Protected Status for eligible Afghans, preventing their forced return during ongoing instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}