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

[BumRushDaShow]

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

[Lovie777]

1. If you are a person of color......

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

[Solly Mack]

2. Miracles of affliction. Nothing but.

[Soul_of_Wit]

3. Demagogue continues to collapse American economy

...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]

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

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]

5. Good people being pushed around like Capitol Police on Jan 6. But yet Trump intends to pay the criminals for

comitting crimes.

[Aristus]

6. So much for "doing it the right way."

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]

7. No point with applying for a K1 (Fianc) visa.

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]

8. Isn't there a requirement to be in the country for 5 years before seeking adjustment of status for a Green Card?

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).

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Meaning they won't be let back in

[LisaL]

12. There are many countries where it would be dangerous

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

[Grumpy Old Guy]

10. How are they supposed to show up for interviews?

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

[electric_blue68]

11. Hey, Scumbag!

Hopefully that will be defeated!
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