Nepalese immigrants with temporary work permits have become the fifth group to receive a cancellation notice from the Trump administration.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that temporary protected status, or TPS, will end for them on June 24, 2019. That means an estimated 9,000 Nepalese with TPS will be eligible for deportation in a little over a year.

TPS functions as a sort of temporary mercy for foreigners already in the U.S. whose countries face natural disaster or armed conflict that prevents their safe return. Immigrants from 22 countries have received such status since the program began in 1990.

The Nepalese were given TPS because of earthquakes in 2015 that killed nearly 9,000 people in the mountainous Himalayan nation of about 28 million.

Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security secretary, made the announcement, saying that after the required review of Nepal's conditions, she determined sufficient reconstruction had taken place there for people to return home.

"Since the 2015 earthquake, conditions in Nepal have notably improved," Nielsen said in a statement. "Additionally, since the last review of the country's conditions in October 2016, Nepal has made substantial progress in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction."

No president has ended temporary protected status for as many immigrants from so many countries as Donald Trump has.

The largest group of current TPS beneficiaries, some 200,000 Salvadorans, were told their TPS work permits and deportation reprieves would end by September 2019. The Trump administration also has announced the end of TPS status for Haitians, Nicaraguans and Sudanese.

In recent months, lawsuits have been filed challenging the decisions to end TPS, arguing that the Trump administration adopted a new and narrow interpretation of the federal law governing TPS.

The Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to make a decision soon on about 57,000 Hondurans with TPS. That status came after hurricanes hit the Central American country in 1999.

Hondurans have been the second-largest beneficiary of TPS, according to a recent report by the

Congressional Research Service. About 9,000 Hondurans with protected status live in Texas.