Hundreds of thousands of families are making life decisions on rumors — right now.
Across 7+ TPS nationalities, people are deciding whether to quit a job, pull a kid from school, or hand cash to a stranger — based on a date they heard secondhand. The real answer is hard to find and harder to trust. So the wrong one travels faster.
We built the verified, trilingual, self-updating answer. Help us put it in front of the people who need it.
The night the deadline disappeared
This is not a hypothetical. It happened this week, and it is exactly the gap the guide was built to close. Every fact below matches our published fact-check: /news/july-10-emergency-what-is-true/.
A date everyone planned around
USCIS listed July 10, 2026 as the work-authorization placeholder for Form I-9 / E-Verify. Hundreds of thousands of TPS workers and their employers treated it as the day the permits ran out — and started making decisions accordingly.
Then it was gone
The evening before, the July 10 date quietly vanished from the USCIS page — replaced by court-order extension language tied to Miot v. Trump (No. 25-cv-02471-ACR, D.D.C.). Permits are now extended by court order with no end date. Meanwhile the old July 10 date kept spreading across social media as fact.
The site caught it and told the truth
Our verification pipeline detected the change against the live USCIS source, confirmed it, and published a trilingual fact-check that same evening — spelling out what is true (extended by court order, no calendar-triggered deportations) and what is not (that everyone becomes deportable on July 10). The chaos and the fix, in one night.
A civic information machine, built to be trusted
Six things that make TPS Survival Guide different from a blog, a rumor thread, or a law firm's marketing page. Free, nonprofit, nonpartisan — for every TPS nationality.
It verifies itself
Three times a day, an automated pipeline checks the site against 8 USCIS country pages and the Federal Register. Any change must cite a live government URL fetched in that same run, or nothing publishes — a stale-but-true page beats a wrong one.
It speaks three languages, honestly
Every page runs in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish. Machine translation is labeled as machine translation, and a missing translation falls back to the verified English text — never a stale localized date.
120+ organizations, each verified
58 local orgs across five metros plus a 65-entry food, housing, jobs, and legal directory — each checked on its own live site. Dead domains are caught. No phone number is ever invented.
An anonymous, moderated board
A community board where people can ask real questions with zero personal information — no email, no real name. Every post runs through an AI pre-screen and a human queue before it appears.
Free. No ads. No data.
It costs nothing, shows no advertising, and collects no personal information from the people who read it. It is nonpartisan and takes no side in any election.
Everything is cited
Every claim is tagged to a primary source — the Supreme Court, USCIS, the Federal Register, DHS — and cited on the page. There is a public corrections address, and corrections get made.
The numbers, each one you can check
Organization counts come from the structured data (ItemList schema) on the live pages named below, so they are auditable.
Five metros on /near-you/: South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach), New York City, the DMV (DC–Maryland–Virginia), Los Angeles & Orange County, and Texas (Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth). The homepage carries a six-card "Status by country" strip covering Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Haiti & Syria.
Radical honesty, on the record
Anyone can claim to be accurate. Here are three times the site chose the harder, honest answer over the reassuring one — because a resource you can only half-trust is not one you can hand to a scared family.
When the answer is no, we say no
On the July-10 job-loss hub, the guide tells people plainly when they are not eligible for something — unemployment insurance, SNAP — instead of offering false hope. A hard truth beats a comforting wrong answer.
We publish "unverified," not a guess
When a circulating claim can't be traced to a primary source, we mark it unverified and say so — rather than repeat it as fact to fill a gap. The rumor page corrects claims by name.
We fixed our own July-10 framing
When USCIS changed the page the night of July 9, we didn't defend our earlier wording — we corrected our own July-10 framing within hours and published what the new court-order language actually meant.
The story is running whether it's covered well or not
The information vacuum around TPS is already producing bad outcomes in real time. Here are the sharpest angles — each grounded in a page we publish and each one you could almost file today. We can put verified data, dates, and sourcing behind any of them, on deadline.
USCIS set a deadline, then deleted it overnight
The July 10 work-permit date hundreds of thousands planned around disappeared from USCIS the night before — replaced by court-order extension language (Miot v. Trump). A clean anatomy of how an official date moves and who gets hurt in the gap.
Source: /work-permit-expired/ · the fact-check
An entire fraud economy preys on the fear
Every moving deadline is a sales opportunity for notarios and fake-"program" filers charging families for help that doesn't exist. A consumer-protection story with named rumors, real mechanics, and where to report.
Source: /rumors/
A civic fact-checker built in two weeks
A YMYL site that re-checks its own facts against government sources three times a day under citation-required, fail-closed guardrails — and corrects itself in public. A tech/accountability story about staying honest at machine speed.
Source: /about/ · the method above
Miami's workforce on a legal ledge
When work authorization wobbles for a metro this dependent on TPS labor, employers, hospitals, and construction feel it fast. A local economics story with a verified 5-metro map of who's affected and where they turn.
Source: /near-you/ · /facts/
Press kit — boilerplate, logo & usageCopy-ready descriptions in three lengths, plus logo and social image downloads.
Three lengths, all factually identical to our About page. Please describe us as a nonprofit project — we do not claim 501(c)(3) status.
TPS Survival Guide is a free, nonprofit, nonpartisan information site for Temporary Protected Status holders and their families, published in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.
TPS Survival Guide is a free, nonprofit, nonpartisan information site for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in the United States and their families. Published in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, it checks every claim against a primary source — the Supreme Court, USCIS, and the Federal Register — and cites it. General information only, not legal advice.
TPS Survival Guide is a free, nonprofit, nonpartisan information site for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in the United States and their families, serving people of every TPS nationality — with Haiti and Syria as the current emergency focus after the June 25, 2026 Supreme Court ruling that let the government proceed with ending their status. Published in English, Haitian Creole (Kreyòl), and Spanish, it checks every claim against a primary source — the Supreme Court, USCIS, and the Federal Register — cites it, and corrects circulating rumors and scams by name. It is general information only, not legal advice, and connects people to verified free and low-cost legal help.
Please keep the wordmark legible and don't imply endorsement or affiliation. Corrections: [email protected].
Your constituents are already calling your office, scared
And the wrong answer is circulating faster than the right one. You don't have to build a translation team, a fact-checking pipeline, or a legal-help directory to give them a straight answer — one already exists, and pointing to it costs you nothing.
Three things that take five minutes
Link the guide from your immigrant-services page
One link from an official immigrant-affairs, new-Americans, or 211 page puts verified, sourced, in-language information one click from your residents. A Mayor's Office of New Americans, a 211 line, or a public library system is exactly who this was built for.
Print the trilingual rights card for your counter
A free, wallet-size Know-Your-Rights and emergency-contacts card, print-ready in English, Kreyòl, and Español. Put a stack at service counters, clinics, and community events. Open the print card →
Point 311 and constituent-services staff at "Resources near you"
Give front-line staff one link — /near-you/ — with 58 verified legal clinics, community centers, and food and rapid-response lines across five metros, so every referral goes to an organization that's been checked.
And to be clear about what it is not
No money changes hands
We don't ask for funding and we don't pay for placement. Endorsing or distributing the guide is simply helping residents find verified information.
No data is collected
Linking or sharing the guide sends us nothing about your residents. The site collects no personal information from the people who read it.
Nonpartisan, always
The guide takes no side in elections and endorses no candidate or party. It reports what primary sources say and directs people to legal help.
Draft letter of support — adapt freelyA ready template your office can put on letterhead. Copy, edit, done.
Letter of support template
To whom it may concern, [Office / Department name] serves a community that includes residents with Temporary Protected Status and their families. Access to accurate, plainly written information — in the languages our residents speak — is essential to their safety and stability. We have reviewed TPS Survival Guide (tpssurvivalguide.com), a free, nonprofit, nonpartisan information resource available in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish. Its information is sourced to primary references such as USCIS, the Federal Register, and court decisions, and it is clearly labeled as general information rather than legal advice. We are glad to share this resource with the residents we serve, and we encourage other offices serving immigrant communities to make it available as well. Sincerely, [Name], [Title] [Office / Department]
Questions, or want to talk it through first? Email [email protected].
We are inviting endorsements — be the first
This wall is honestly empty for now. We're inviting community organizations, legal-aid providers, and local government offices to endorse the guide or help distribute it. If your organization is willing to be listed, we'd be honored to hear from you.