What requirements or qualifying conditions do I need to meet to qualify for late initial registration?
A2. To qualify for a late initial TPS registration application, you must also demonstrate that at the time of the initial registration period of the TPS designation  you:

• were in a valid nonimmigrant status, or had been granted voluntary departure, or any relief from removal; OR
• had a pending application for:

o Change of status;
o Adjustment of status;
o Asylum; OR

• had voluntary departure; OR
• had any relief from removal pending or subject to further review or appeal; OR
• were a parolee or had a pending request for re-parole; OR
• were the spouse or child of an alien currently eligible to be a TPS registrant. (see 8 CFR 244.2(f)(2).

If you are applying for TPS for the first time under the  late initial registration provisions, you must register while one of the above qualifying conditions still exists, or no later than 60 days after the expiration or termination of the qualifying condition. The qualifying condition you seek to use for eligibility under late initial filing must have existed during the initial TPS registration period for Nicaragua or the initial TPS registration period 

Q3. If I didn’t have a qualifying condition during the initial TPS registration period, but had it during the last re-registration (extension), am I eligible to submit a late initial filing for TPS now?
A3. No. One of the qualifying conditions must have applied to you during the initial  TPS registration periods