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BumRushDaShow

(172,424 posts)
Fri May 22, 2026, 03:45 PM 18 hrs ago

Trump is forcing green card applicants back to their home countries to wait for permanent residency

Source: The Independent

Friday 22 May 2026 13:28 EDT


Donald Trump’s administration could soon force immigrants seeking a green card to leave the U.S. while they are waiting for permanent residency, a move that would upend the lives of millions of people who are currently in the pipeline and significantly disrupt families and businesses who rely on them.

New guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services states that “aliens seeking adjustment of status” must do so “outside of the country.”. “We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,” USCIS spokesman Zach Kahler said Friday.

“From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a green card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances,” he said. “This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes.”

USCIS, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, has emerged as a key tool in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, which has turned an agency largely tasked with administering benefits — including handling applications for citizenship, asylum and other lawful status — into another law enforcement arm.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/green-card-trump-uscis-policy-b2982129.html

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Trump is forcing green card applicants back to their home countries to wait for permanent residency (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP
If you are a person of color...... Lovie777 17 hrs ago #1
Miracles of affliction. Nothing but. Solly Mack 17 hrs ago #2
Demagogue continues to collapse American economy Soul_of_Wit 17 hrs ago #3
I'm half-surprised he isn't making them wait in countries they've never been to in their lives, considering he has no Karasu 17 hrs ago #4
Good people being pushed around like Capitol Police on Jan 6. But yet Trump intends to pay the criminals for twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #5
So much for "doing it the right way." Aristus 16 hrs ago #6
No point with applying for a K1 (Fianc) visa. mwooldri 15 hrs ago #7
Isn't there a requirement to be in the country for 5 years before seeking adjustment of status for a Green Card? dickthegrouch 14 hrs ago #8
Meaning they won't be let back in Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 13 hrs ago #9
There are many countries where it would be dangerous LisaL 5 hrs ago #12
How are they supposed to show up for interviews? Grumpy Old Guy 9 hrs ago #10
Hey, Scumbag! electric_blue68 9 hrs ago #11

Lovie777

(23,768 posts)
1. If you are a person of color......
Fri May 22, 2026, 03:49 PM
17 hrs ago

this current administration won’t allow you back in and of course will deny your duly executed green card.

Soul_of_Wit

(148 posts)
3. Demagogue continues to collapse American economy
Fri May 22, 2026, 03:58 PM
17 hrs ago

...by failing to understand that the economy is not a zero-sum game. Immigration is why the US has the largest economy in the history of the world. We don't have to be an aging-demographic country with a shrinking economy like, say, Japan. Immigration reform and a thriving economy will not happen with the COP (cult of personality, formerly known as the GOP) in charge.

Karasu

(2,092 posts)
4. I'm half-surprised he isn't making them wait in countries they've never been to in their lives, considering he has no
Fri May 22, 2026, 04:18 PM
17 hrs ago

fucking problem deporting people to them.

Not that he has the power to do that, but when has that ever stopped him from trying?

twodogsbarking

(19,383 posts)
5. Good people being pushed around like Capitol Police on Jan 6. But yet Trump intends to pay the criminals for
Fri May 22, 2026, 04:33 PM
17 hrs ago

comitting crimes.

Aristus

(72,538 posts)
6. So much for "doing it the right way."
Fri May 22, 2026, 05:00 PM
16 hrs ago

Like every anti-immigrant dickhead says.

"...If they just did it the right way!..."

Liars, fools, idiots, scumbags, dipshits, Trumpanzees, and thorough wastes of defective human protoplasm.



Any chance we could sent that anti-immigrant pus-nozzles back where they came from?...

mwooldri

(10,828 posts)
7. No point with applying for a K1 (Fianc) visa.
Fri May 22, 2026, 05:55 PM
15 hrs ago

Sure that'll give you a clear path to marry and then adjust status. But if you're being forced to leave the US to adjust status ...Might as well come in on a tourist visa (or visa waiver), get married, and then go back to their home country and then wait years to reunite.

dickthegrouch

(4,672 posts)
8. Isn't there a requirement to be in the country for 5 years before seeking adjustment of status for a Green Card?
Fri May 22, 2026, 07:39 PM
14 hrs ago

I thought one had to apply for and be granted "advance parole" if one wanted to leave in the middle of the 5 year period.

This sounds like a typical governmental catch-22 situation, be forced out to await adjustment, but be ineligible for adjustment because of non-presence.

If this is out of date, (I was navigating these kinds of contradictions in the 90's), please LMK and I'll delete.

(I am not an attorney).

LisaL

(47,517 posts)
12. There are many countries where it would be dangerous
Sat May 23, 2026, 03:48 AM
5 hrs ago

for people to go back to supposedly wait for their green cards.

Grumpy Old Guy

(4,398 posts)
10. How are they supposed to show up for interviews?
Sat May 23, 2026, 12:21 AM
9 hrs ago

They can't come in for interviews if they're out of the country.

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