TPS education seminar scheduled for Venezuelans

Catholic Legal Services and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s office will be holding a seminar this week about temporary protected status for Venezuelans.

The seminar will be in Spanish through the website facebook.com/ CCLSMiami.

Catholic Legal Services will be conducting the seminar on Wednesday at the Church of Our Lady Of Guadalupe in Miami.

The session is limited in size. To register, visit Information Day.

“We remain committed to providing important and timely information about Venezuelan TPS,” Catholic Legal Services organizers say.

Starting on March 9, Venezuelans in South Florida were able to apply for Temporary Protected Status, a program that allows people to work and live legally in the U.S., often after a natural disaster or political turmoil in their home countries. The recent action is expected to benefit more than 320,000 Venezuelans in the United States.

Founded in 1998, Catholic Legal Services of the Archdiocese of Miami, Inc. provides professional immigration services to the South Florida refugee and immigrant community, particularly low-income clients.

An estimated 421,000 Hispanics of Venezuelan origin resided in the United States in 2017, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

In South Florida, the number of people of Venezuelan descent in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties increased by 250% to more than 80,000 between 2000 and 2013, according to census figures.