Haitian TPS termination is now in effect after Mullin

Last verified: Aug. 25, 2026. This is a status record, not legal advice. The operative posture is straightforward now: Haitian TPS termination is in effect, the July 27, 2026 termination date controls, the blocking stay was lifted on Aug. 5, 2026, and only the equal protection claims in Miot v. Trump remain pending before Judge Reyes with discovery proceeding.

The earlier record matters here only because it explains why the dates kept moving. Haiti's TPS path runs through the 2010 designation, the 2018 Ramos and Saget litigation, and the 2021 and 2023 redesignations, but those milestones are context for the current status, not the current status itself [8].

Record of the termination

The main legal hinge is Mullin. The Court did not open a new merits path for APA challenges to a TPS termination; it closed that path under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(5)(A), which means the fight over arbitrary-and-capricious review and procedural consultation no longer controls the status question [3]. In practical terms, Mullin shifted the record away from APA review and left the later stay order and the surviving constitutional claims to determine whether anything still blocked the termination.

That distinction matters because some of the July references were never stable enough to cite without checking the primary source again. USCIS and E-Verify moved through changing operational placeholders in July before settling on the July 27 termination date, so earlier firm alerts tied to July 1, July 10, or July 24 are now superseded by the later agency release and the Supreme Court's controlling opinion [4][5].

What remains pending

The case does not end with Mullin. The remaining live litigation is the constitutional equal protection track in Miot v. Trump, No. 25-cv-02471-ACR, still before Judge Reyes, with discovery proceeding. Practitioner reports of the Aug. 5, 2026 order say the stay is no longer in effect, which changes the practical posture immediately, but it does not erase the separate constitutional claims [6][7].

For anyone working the record the next morning, the clean reading is narrow. The termination is operative. APA-based attacks are foreclosed in this posture. The stay that had been holding the termination back is reported as lifted. What still needs monitoring is whether the surviving constitutional claims in Miot produce a new order, a new agency notice, or a docket entry that changes the status again [3][6][7].

References

1. Termination of the Designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, 90 FR 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025), Federal Register,
2. Partial Vacatur of 2024 Temporary Protected Status Decision for Haiti, 90 FR (Feb. 24, 2025), Federal Register,
3. Mullin v. Doe, No. 25-1083, slip op. (U.S. June 25, 2026), Supreme Court,
4. Update on Termination of TPS for Haiti (archived, Feb. 14, 2026), E-Verify,
5. Update on Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti (Release: July 29, 2026), USCIS,
6. D.C. District Court Lifts Stay Blocking Termination of Haiti TPS (Aug. 2026), Jackson Lewis Global Immigration Blog,
7. Court Takes Action on Haiti TPS Termination Plus Other TPS Updates (Aug. 6, 2026), Wolfsdorf,
8. DHS terminates TPS for Haiti, Immigration Policy Tracking Project,