Approximately 1.3 million illegal immigrants who have been protected from deportation through the Temporary Protected Status program have up to two additional weeks to work in the United States legally as they await the final decision on when they must leave the country, according to the federal agency that manages TPS.

Department of Homeland Security agency U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a recent statement that gave TPS recipients from seven countries, including roughly 330,000 Haitians, a short reprieve from losing their work documents while in the U.S.