TPS
TPS Survival Guide The project, in the founder's words
A self-funded information lifeline · built in Miami

It updates before the news does.

TPS Survival Guide, in the founder's words.

My name is Micah Berkley, and I built TPS Survival Guide — a free, trilingual, self-updating information lifeline for families living under Temporary Protected Status, one that collects zero personal data. When a government deadline vanished overnight, my site caught the change against the live source and published the truth in three languages the same evening. This page breaks down what I built, who I am, and why it exists.

Built in Miami Free & self-funded EN Kreyòl Español Verifies itself 3× a day Collects zero personal data
The live home page. One verified answer, in plain language, kept current against primary government sources — and offered in the reader's own language.
Who I am · why it exists

I kept watching families decide their lives on a rumor.

Here in Miami, I kept seeing the same thing happen. A family would sit at the kitchen table and decide whether to quit a job, pull a kid out of school, or hand cash to a stranger who promised to fix their paperwork — all based on a date somebody heard secondhand.

The frightening part wasn't that people were careless. It's that the right answer was genuinely hard to find, and even when you found it, it was hard to trust. Official pages are written in dense English and they change without warning. Meanwhile the wrong answer — a rumor, a scam, an old date that's no longer true — travels fast and sounds certain.

I didn't think a scared family should have to become a legal researcher to get a straight answer in the language they actually speak. So I built the place I wished existed: one page they could open, trust, and forward — that tells them what is true right now, and admits what nobody yet knows.

I'm one person. I fund it myself. There's no ad money, no grant steering it, and no political money behind it. That isn't a limitation I'm apologizing for — it's the whole design. It means the only thing this project answers to is whether the information is correct and current.

A scared family shouldn't have to be a legal researcher to get a straight answer.

What follows is the honest breakdown: the night that proves why it matters, exactly what I built and how it works, and three specific ways an office, an organization, or a newsroom can use it. No faith required — everything here is something you can check yourself.

The breakdown

What I actually built.

It isn't a blog, a rumor thread, or a law firm's marketing page. It's a small piece of self-verifying public infrastructure. Here is each capability — and the proof it's real, not a slogan.

Self-verifying · often ahead of the news

It re-checks its own facts three times a day

Three times daily, an automated pipeline verifies the site against 8 USCIS country pages and the Federal Register. The guardrail is strict: any change has to cite a live government URL fetched in that same run, or nothing publishes. A stale-but-true page always beats a fast wrong one — that discipline is exactly why it caught the July 10 change.

Zero personal data

It asks nothing of the people it protects

The site collects no personal information from the people who read it. Even the anonymous community board takes only a screen name and a PIN — no email, no phone number, no real name. Nobody should have to trade their privacy for an answer, least of all a family that's already afraid.

Built to be found

Optimized for search engines and AI answers

A resource nobody can find helps no one. The site is built for search and for the AI answer engines people increasingly ask first — structured data, clean sourcing, machine-readable summaries — so that when someone types their fear into a search box, the verified answer is what comes back.

A long scroll down the Verified Facts page, showing section after section of plain-language answers, each tied to a primary government source.
The Verified Facts page, top to bottom. Every claim carries a citation to a primary government source — the Supreme Court, USCIS, the Federal Register, DHS.
The full mobile home page scrolled top to bottom, showing how much verified, in-language guidance loads on a phone in a single page.
The same page on a phone. This is the whole experience for most readers — one long, trustworthy page in their own language.
One page a family can open, trust, and forward.
Inside the site

Four things it does, that most resources can't.

The verified directory — real organizations, each checked on its own live website, across five metros.
One verified answer

Plain, sourced facts — not opinion

It turns the shifting rules around Temporary Protected Status into plain answers a person can act on, and ties every claim to a primary government source, cited right on the page. When the honest answer is "no," it says no. When a claim can't be traced, it's labeled unverified rather than repeated.

Verified directory · 120+ orgs

Real help, checked one by one

Legal clinics, food, housing, and jobs — 120+ organizations, each verified on its own live website, with dead domains caught and no phone numbers invented. A "near you" view covers five major metros, and it sends people to those organizations, never between them and their clients.

Three real languages

Trilingual, labeled honestly

Every route runs in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, with full hreflang so search engines serve the right one. Where a translation is machine-assisted, it's labeled as such — and a missing localized version falls back to verified English rather than show a stale date in someone's own language.

Anonymous community board

A place to ask, without exposure

People can ask a real question and share what worked — with just a screen name and a PIN. An AI pre-screen and a human review keep it safe, and nothing personal is stored. If you forget your PIN, even I can't recover the account. That's on purpose.

The same home page shown in Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen) on a phone: 'TPS ap fini pou Ayiti & Siri. Men egzakteman kote ou kanpe jodi a,' with the language switcher set to Kreyòl and a note marking machine-assisted translation.
Trilingual, for real. This is the identical home page in Haitian Creole — same facts, same sources, served natively rather than through a browser translate button. Where a translation is machine-assisted, the page says so plainly (tradiksyon otomatik), and a family always sees a verified date, never a stale one.
The anonymous board. A screen name and a PIN — no email, no phone, no real name. If you forget the PIN, the account is gone. That's the privacy guarantee, made literal.
Rights, dated and sourced. Every fast-moving answer carries the date it was checked and a link to the primary government page — so a reader is never acting on a claim they can't trace.
~36pages across the siteEN · Kreyòl · Español routes
3languages, full hreflangEnglish · Haitian Creole · Spanish
3×/dayself-verification runs7am · 1pm · 7pm ET
8USCIS pages watched+ the Federal Register
120+organizations, each verified58 across 5 metros · 65 in directory
0pieces of personal data collectedscreen name only on the board

What's on the site

  • Live status board
  • Legal facts & the ruling explained
  • Your rights / know-your-rights
  • Find help & verified directory
  • Resources near you — 5 metros
  • Newsroom & rumor fact-checks
  • Anonymous community board
  • Print-ready trilingual rights card

How it's built — in plain English

A fast Astro static site on Cloudflare. AI verification runs through the Cloudflare AI Gateway; GitHub Actions re-check the facts three times a day. The anonymous community features run on Cloudflare D1, with an AI pre-screen before a human review.

How it's funded

A nonprofit, self-funded project. No ads, no data collection, no grants, no political money — nonpartisan by design. It is general information, not legal advice, and it's not affiliated with any government agency.

Every number here is checkable. The organization counts come from the structured data on the live /near-you/ and directory pages, and each org was verified on its own live website — dead domains caught, no phone numbers invented. The site launched in June 2026.
Route 2 · Nonprofits & legal aid
For legal clinics, community orgs, and service providers

We don't compete with you. We send people to you.

Let me lead with what you get, not what I want. TPS Survival Guide does not do casework, fundraising, or client relationships. It does one thing: keep the facts straight and point frightened people toward organizations like yours. Your work is the destination — this is just a cleaner road to your door.

There's a good chance your organization is already listed. The directory holds 120+ verified organizations, and each was checked on its own live website — so being in it is free, ongoing discovery for you, from families who are actively searching for exactly what you provide. If you're listed and something's out of date, or you're not listed and should be, that's a two-minute fix I'll make gladly.

What listing gives your org free · no strings
Discovery
Families actively searchingFound by people who need your service today
Verification
Checked on your live siteAccurate contact info, no invented numbers
Reach
Trilingual · 5 metrosEN · Kreyòl · Español, near-you views
Boundary
We stop at the referralNo casework, no fundraising, no middleman
Get your org listed — or grab 20 minutes The only ask is small: a short call, not a partnership.