In this episode of Greenberg Traurig’s Immigration Insights Podcast, Kate Kalmykov and Cole Heyer discuss recent developments affecting Temporary Protected Status and the resulting considerations for employers and foreign nationals.
On August 11, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly posted an update permitting certain Salvadoran Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries to demonstrate continued work authorization by presenting their Employment Authorization Document (EAD) together with an Individual Notice that
Registering Trademarks in Central America: How to Build a Country-by-Country Filing Strategy
A U.S. consumer-products company appoints one distributor to sell its products in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It registers its trademark in Guatemala, where sales will begin, and
There is one place that Latin America’s right-wing politicians are now particularly keen to visit: the 23-hectare maximum-security Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT; Terrorism Confinement Center) prison. Inaugurated in 2023 in central El Salvador, the prison houses thousands of
El Salvador’s Fiscalia General de la Republica (Prosecutor General of the Republic) opened an unprecedented mass trial Monday against 486 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, including founders and top-level commanders, charging them collectively with 47,000 crimes committed
On January 29, 2026, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that the United States and El Salvador have signed the U.S.-El Salvador Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (Agreement). According to Ambassador Jamieson Greer, the USTR: “Today’s signing of
A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to provide due process to Venezuelan migrants who have been removed from the US and flown to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador.
Judge James Boasberg of the
El Salvador has partnered with xAI to implement a nationwide AI-powered education program, aiming to provide personalized tutoring to over one million students across more than 5,000 public schools. Utilizing xAI’s Grok model, the initiative seeks to tailor learning experiences
On November 13, 2025, the United States and the Republic of El Salvador entered a framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. The Agreement aims to strengthen the countries’ economic partnership established in 2006 under the Dominican Republic–Central America–United
Kilmar Ábrego García fled El Salvador as a teenager, running from gang violence that would have consumed him. For fourteen years, he built America—literally. His hands laid the concrete, raised the steel, and constructed the roads and buildings that
