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TPS Survival Guide

The project, presented by its founder

Free · Nonprofit · Self-funded

A lifeline that updates before the news does.

My name is Micah Berkley. I built TPS Survival Guide in Miami — a free, trilingual, self-updating information lifeline for families living under Temporary Protected Status. It verifies the law against primary sources three times a day, publishes in three languages, and collects zero personal data. This page is the whole story — for government, for nonprofits, and for the press.

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Built in MiamiEN · Kreyòl · Español Updates 3× a dayZero personal data No ads · No fees

Who I am & why this exists

I kept watching families decide their lives on a rumor.

After the June 2026 Supreme Court ruling on Temporary Protected Status, I watched something that didn't sit right with me. Around Miami — home to the largest TPS community in America — people were making kitchen-table decisions with lifelong consequences: whether to quit a job, pull a child from school, or hand cash to a stranger promising "a new program." And they were making those decisions based on a date they heard secondhand.

The real answer existed — buried in federal registers, court dockets, and agency pages that change without warning, written in a language many families don't read. The wrong answer was free, viral, and in their language. So the wrong answer was winning.

I decided the right answer should move faster than the rumor. I built this site, funded it myself, and pointed it at one job: verify the truth against the primary source, then hand it to the people who need it — in their language, for free, without asking who they are.

Micah BerkleyFounder, TPS Survival Guide — Miami, Florida

The Miami skyline — **Built in Miami**Home to the largest TPS community in the United States

What it stands on

Where facts meet the people who need them

Verified at the source

Every claim is checked against USCIS, the Federal Register, and court records — and cited. If we can't verify it, we say "unverified" instead of repeating it.

Three languages, honestly

English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish — with machine-assisted translations clearly labeled until a native speaker reviews them. Dignity includes honesty.

Zero personal data

No accounts, no forms that store identity, no ads, no tracking. Even our community board needs only a screen name — never a name, email, or phone number.

What I actually built

One site doing the work of a newsroom, a help desk, and a hotline

Thirty-six pages, three languages, checked against the government several times a day. Here are the four rooms of the house.

Re-verified 3× every day

Today's Status

Plain answers to the questions people are scared to ask: Can I still work? Have deportations started? Every card carries its source and the time it was last checked.

Visit the status board →

Built for the July 10 crisis

Crisis Guides

What happens if your work permit lapses — your rights with your employer, food, housing, childcare, and driving. Honest even when the honest answer is hard.

Read the guide →

Resources near you: verified organizations by city

120+ orgs · 5 metro areas

Verified Local Help

Every organization checked against its own live website — phone by phone. Dead links caught, rebrands corrected, and no number ever invented. Miami, NYC, DC, LA, Texas.

See the directory →

Screen name only · moderated

Anonymous Community

A place to share resources and ask questions without surrendering identity. AI pre-screening plus human moderation keeps scammers out; anonymity keeps families safe.

See the board →

The technology

An AI newsroom that verifies itself.

This is what makes it first of its kind: the site is not maintained — it maintains itself. Three times a day, an AI pipeline checks the government's own sources and rewrites the site only when it can prove the facts changed.

1It reads the primary sources. Every run fetches 8 live USCIS country pages and the Federal Register — never news articles, never social media.
2A frontier AI compares. Through Cloudflare's AI Gateway, a state-of-the-art model compares today's official language against every fact the site currently publishes.
3Code-enforced guardrails decide. The AI can't just say something changed — it must cite the exact government page it fetched that proves it. Wrong format, missing citation, any doubt at all: nothing publishes. A stale-but-true page beats a wrong one, always.
4It publishes in three languages — in minutes. A confirmed change rewrites the status board, the alert ribbon, and the Kreyòl and Spanish pages (labeled as machine translation), then rebuilds and ships the site. No human bottleneck at 2 a.m. when a court order lands.
5It leaves a paper trail. Every automated change is a public commit with its citations attached — anyone can audit exactly what changed, when, and on whose authority.

the site's actual change log

commit  ·  tps-status-bot
"Auto-update: status verified against primary sources

 Updated by the AI verification step. Guardrails: changes
 require citations from fetched uscis.gov / federalregister.gov
 content."

The same AI stack guards the community. Every public submission passes a bot check and an AI pre-screen trained to catch scams, solicitation, and oversharing — then waits for human approval. Nothing user-written auto-publishes on a legal topic.

Zero personal data, by architecture. The community board has no email, phone, or name field to leak — screen name and PIN only. There is nothing to subpoena, sell, or breach.

Built to be read by AIs, too. The whole site ships machine-readable editions (llms.txt, full structured data) so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI answers cite the verified version — not a rumor.

The machine, measured

Self-sufficient by design — it runs while Miami sleeps

3×/dayautomatic verification runs against live government sources

8 + 1USCIS country pages + the Federal Register, watched continuously

120+local organizations, each verified on its own live website

36pages across English, Kreyòl Ayisyen, and Español

0ads, trackers, or pieces of personal data collected

$0charged to anyone, ever — fully self-funded

Every number on this page is checkable on the live site — sources and methodology here.

The night that proved it

July 9, 2026: the deadline vanished overnight.

A date everyone planned around

USCIS listed July 10, 2026 as the day Haiti and Syria TPS work permits could stop being valid. Hundreds of thousands of families — and their employers — were bracing for it.

The night before, it disappeared

On the evening of July 9, the date vanished from the USCIS page — replaced by court-order language from Miot v. Trump: permits extended, no end date listed.

The site caught it the same evening

My verification system flagged the change against the live source, and a verified fact-check — what's true, what's false, what to do — was published that night in English, Kreyòl, and Español, while the dead date kept circulating on social media.

Read the fact-check that shipped that night →

The emergency fact-check article on a phone

Answers before you ask

The questions officials, nonprofits, and editors ask me

Can my office link to or share this without violating policy?

Yes — that's exactly what it's built for. The project is nonpartisan, takes no political money, sells nothing, collects no personal data from your constituents, and clearly states it is general information, not legal advice, and not affiliated with any government agency. Linking or endorsing costs nothing and commits your office to nothing.

Who funds this?

I do. It is completely self-funded — no ads, no sponsors, no grants pulling strings, no donations solicited. That independence is deliberate: nobody can buy what the site says. It is a nonprofit project (we do not claim 501(c)(3) status, and we ask you to describe us accurately).

How do I know the information is right?

Every claim is cited to a primary source — USCIS, the Federal Register, court records. An automated system re-verifies the site against those sources three times a day and is engineered to fail safe: if verification is uncertain, the site keeps the last verified truth rather than guessing. When facts change, we correct and date the change publicly.

My nonprofit serves this community — what do you want from us?

Mostly, to send people your way. If you serve TPS families, your organization may already be listed in our verified directory — for free. If your details changed, or you're not listed, twenty minutes on a call fixes it. We're not seeking funding or a formal partnership; we're seeking accuracy.

I'm a journalist on deadline. What can you give me?

Verified, primary-sourced facts you can check yourself; plain-language explainers in three languages; and a direct line to me, same-day: [email protected]. The July 10 story above is a good place to start — every beat of it is documented on the live site.

Need a letter of support template for your office or board?

To whom it may concern,

[Office/Organization] supports the availability of accurate, multilingual,
freely accessible information for Temporary Protected Status holders in our
community. We have reviewed TPSSurvivalGuide.com, a free, nonpartisan,
self-funded information resource that cites official government sources and
collects no personal data, and we encourage residents seeking information
about their status to consult it alongside official sources such as USCIS.gov
and qualified legal counsel.

[Name, Title]

Adapt freely — no permission needed.

Stories that shape the mission

Read the work for yourself

Emergency fact-check

What is true about July 10 — and what is not

Published the night the deadline vanished, in three languages, while the rumor was still spreading.

Read it →

Every nationality, verified

Seven countries, one standard of proof

Haiti, Syria, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ukraine — each status verified and cited, including the June 2026 Venezuela earthquake, confirmed before we published a word about it.

See the facts →

Hope, without false hope

Your options after TPS — honestly

Green cards, asylum, and the paths that actually exist — including the deadlines that quietly die when a status ends. Written to inform, never to sell.

Read the guide →

Looking to make a real difference today?

Choose your path

Whichever door you came through, the ask is small and the commitment is zero.

Government

Your constituents are already calling, scared. Link the guide from your immigrant-services page, print the free trilingual rights card for your counter, or endorse it — no money, no data, nonpartisan.

Talk to Micah

Nonprofits

We send people to you. Check your listing in the verified directory, correct it, or add your services — twenty minutes on a call is the whole ask.

Check your listing

Media

The story is running whether it's covered well or not. Verified facts, trilingual materials, and a founder who answers same-day.

Reach the founder

Or simply: [email protected] — it reaches me directly.