00:00Thousands of Venezuelans in South Florida who hold temporary protection status or TPS
00:05are allowed to extend their driver's license and additional 60 A's.
00:09A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's decision to cancel their TPS was unlawful.
00:15While the legal battle continues, many are rushing to extend those driver's licenses,
00:18even if it's only temporarily.
00:20CBS News Miami's Yvonne Taylor reports from Northwest Miami-Dade.
00:25Some 253,000 Venezuelans have a relief for that period of time, until November 7th.
00:33And for those two months, they are allowed to have a valid driver's license, but many are only getting a
00:40document.
00:42Long lines at this tax collector's office in Miami.
00:48Maximiliano Hernandez is one of them.
00:50He and hundreds who filed TPS in 2021 came to this office in West Flagler Street and 77th Avenue
00:57to extend their driver's license permit for two months.
01:01They give me this document.
01:03They say to me that I can drive for just 60 days.
01:10We print the paper, and with that paper, they can drive it around.
01:14Dariel Fernandez told me many Venezuelans are not getting an extension immediately in their driver's license
01:21because the state of Florida wants to filter out possible cases of fraud.
01:25And sometimes it's not because they bring false documents.
01:28It's because Tallahassee wanted to go more in deep in this specific case.
01:33Dozens are getting the paper.
01:36It's extremely important for me to have a driver's license because that's how I make my living, said Maricela Parili.
01:42She rushed to this office after federal judge Edward Shen from California ruled last week
01:47that the Trump administration cannot strip the deportation protections under temporary protected status
01:53for nearly one million Venezuelans and Haitians already in the United States, many of them living in South Florida.
02:01What I feel is temporary happiness, Luis Silva told me, with his son born in the U.S.,
02:06he fears having to head back to Venezuela, to a country which now is at a war of words with
02:12the Trump administration.
02:13He rushed to extend his driver's license.
02:17We have to see what the future holds for us.
02:20We don't know.
02:21Hernandez said he can't wait to get his driver's license in the mail.
02:25He told me anything is worth living in peace, even driving, with just a document.
02:31How much did you have to pay for that?
02:33Free.
02:34I don't pay nothing.
02:36Now, according to Miami-Dade tax collector, if Venezuelan TPS gets extended until October of 2026,
02:43which is what the Biden administration requested in January of this year,
02:48Venezuelans would have to pay almost $55 for a driver's license, which would be valid for only one year.
02:56We are in Northwest Miami-Dade.
02:58Ivan Taylor, CBS News, Miami.
