Our overall campaign to win permanent residency for all TPS communities continues and a new page has turned with the Senate wins in Georgia in Congress. Our goals for 2021 are to:

Fight for impacted communities with national and local partners to win a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants, including the 400,000 temporary protected status (TPS) holders and essential workers.
Expand our base of Nepali TPS holders, concentrating in New York, Texas, California, Maryland, Virginia and Colorado.
Build the leadership of the New York TPS committee and our target states through joint training on legislation, crimmigration, storytelling and organizing.
Protect TPS holders through the Bhattarai v Nielsen and Ramos v Nielsen lawsuits,
Provide legal services and detention and deportation emergency support through one on one support and legal clinics.

This work is building upon foundational organizing efforts and wins by our member leaders last year. A few highlights from 2020 include:

We conducted and released our first ever national survey report “Nepali TPS Holders Make Significant Contributions To America” in partnership with the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) at University of California San Diego. We organized 12 Nepali TPS holders to phonebank and conduct the surveys. TPS holders were central to this participatory research project.
We launched Communities United for Status and Protection (CUSP), a collaborative of grassroots immigrant organizations working together to win permanent status for our members and communities. Together we will build a more inclusive immigrant rights movement that centers the needs and experiences of African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, Arab/Middle Eastern, and API immigrants
Following the 9th circuit court’s negative decision on Ramos and Bhattarai last Fall, we mobilized over 100 TPS holders and supporters, despite the pandemic, outside of Senator Schumer’s Manhattan office and in DC demanding that Congress act on permanent protections swiftly. The NYC mobilization was especially successful where we secured a meeting with Senator Schumer and TPS members voiced their demands. Senator Schumer has promised that TPS will be a priority in immigration reform.
Our movement for TPS is growing and TPS holders are the center of our organizing. We have organized 134 Nepali TPS holders from seven states to build the campaign and take action on TPS. 31 of these members were trained and told their story with elected officials, at lobby meetings, on virtual platforms, with the media, and more.

These are just the tip of the iceberg -- check out our website for more in-depth details on our immigration highlights and accomplishments from last year here.

Momentum is building and we need your support. Despite all that our communities endured these last four years, we continue to build power and engage Nepali TPS holders in the fight for immigration reform.