A US federal court has issued an order in favor of President Donald Trump administration pertaining to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of immigrants.

With this order, the deck has been cleared for the Trump administration to remove 7, 000 Nepalis by ending their TPS status.

In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal. Immigrant rights advocates allege that the administration acted unlawfully in ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, Aljazeera reported. 

This decision means that the Republican administration can move towards removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose TPS designations expired on August 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire September 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal.