The Biden administration will protect up to 2,300 citizens of Yemen who are living illegally in the United States from deportation by renewing temporary protected status, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS announced Monday morning that it would renew the 18-month TPS program for Yemenis through March 3, 2026, because conditions in the Arab nation are not suitable for the government to take back its citizens.

“Yemen has been in a state of protracted conflict for the past decade, severely limiting civilians’ access to water, food, and medical care, pushing the country to the brink of economic collapse, and preventing Yemeni nationals living abroad from safely returning home,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement Monday.

Yemen has faced armed conflict, and “extraordinary” and temporary conditions continue to support Yemen’s TPS designation, according to the Biden administration.

“The steps the Department of Homeland Security has taken today will allow certain Yemenis currently residing in the United States to remain and work here until conditions in their home country improve,” Mayorkas said.

Yemen was first designated for TPS in 2015. Recipients receive documents to work in the country and authorization to legally reside in the country.

At present, 2,300 Yemenis have been approved for TPS under the current designation, which was slated to end this month.

Last month, the Biden administration announced it would redesignate Haiti for TPS. The decision will allow roughly 309,000 Haitian illegal immigrants in the U.S. to apply for protection from deportation.

Early on in the Trump administration, the White House threatened to end TPS for several countries.

Trump criticized his predecessors for renewing national memberships every 18 months in the TPS program, which allows illegal immigrants from specific countries to remain in the country and work because the home country is unstable as a result of political or environmental problems. Trump said crises in those countries that began 20 and 30 years ago could not still affect their ability to take back their citizens.

However, the Trump administration renewed TPS designations for most participating countries in 2019 after it was blocked in court from removing them. In other cases, it continued the years-old program because conditions in those countries had not dramatically improved.

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The Biden administration has continued to renew most countries’ designations since 2021.

Congress created TPS in 1990 as a way to help countries that had been seriously harmed by armed conflict, famine, or natural disaster from having to repatriate citizens deported from the U.S. TPS status can be requested from the U.S. government by the countries at any time.