Federal district court temporarily blocks Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act from retroactively shortening TPS employment authorization validity

On July 21, 2026, the federal district court for the District Massachusetts temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from implementing certain TPS and asylum provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("H.R. 1"), which were set to take effect on July 22, 2026. If implemented, the TPS and asylum provisions in H.R. 1 would have retroactively shortened the employment authorization validity of individuals with TPS and would have imposed severe consequences on asylum applicants who failed to pay a new annual asylum fee, including a rejection of their asylum application, termination of their employment authorization, and placing the asylum applicant in removal proceedings.

The federal district court's  temporary order will remain in effect until the court issues a second order no later than August 5, 2026. For more information on the lawsuit, see reporting from Bloomberg Law here.