U.S. President, Joseph R. Biden Jr., on Monday granted reprieve to Liberians living in the United States (U.S.) as he extended and expanded eligibility for ‘Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians’ in the United States through June 30, 2024.
Under the memo by President Biden titled “Memorandum on Extending and Expanding Eligibility for Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians,” all Liberians who have been resident in the U.S. since May 20, 2017 are eligible to enjoy full subsisting immigration privileges including continued employment authorization through June 30, 2024.
The memo reads: “Pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States, I have determined that it is in the foreign policy interests of the United States to defer through June 30, 2024, the removal of any Liberian national, or person without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who is present in the United States and who was under a grant of DED as of June 30, 2022, as well as any Liberian national, or person without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who has been continuously physically present in the United States since May 20, 2017.
“I have also determined that any Liberian national, or person without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who was under a grant of DED as of June 30, 2022, or who has been continuously physically present in the United States since May 20, 2017, should have continued employment authorization through June 30, 2024.”
