This is my genuine curiosity. I am not trying to bash any of my Nepalese brothers and sisters here who are still in TPS. I had many, many friends of my own — I would say more than 20 — who were in TPS, but all of them converted to permanent residency within the last 10 years. Many of them didn't have valid status but still were able to figure out things like EB2, EB3 Skilled/Unskilled, and many other routes. Some of them went back home and came back on parole to clean up their "unlawful presence and inadmissibility" situations. I know many of my friends' friends, family members — I can't even count — who all changed TPS stuff to permanency. I could understand if there were a couple of thousand folks not being in the situation to convert, but I saw the stat somewhere that still close to 8,000 people are in TPS.

Why? What did you do for the last 10 years?

I hope it gets extended or gets hung up in court till the next administration. But regardless, I hope you guys wake up from this, and I hope there is nobody in TPS within the next 5 years. Best wishes.

Its not easy to adjust status. you have to have a very clean record to adjust status . Even a minor traffic infraction is enough to permanently block u from being a green card holder under work sponsorship category ( eb1, eb2 , eb3, L1 ) etc .

those who are still on tps either didn't complete their degree to get a job that could sponsor them green card or had a criminal record prevent them getting green card . unfortunately its a dead end for most of them. forget about 10 years, they will still be on tps if it was granted for a century under current provision.

A few lucky with no criminal record get away with this turmoil either winning DV lottery or marrying a US citizen , thats it