Ruby 🇺🇸

An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

So my understanding of this new USCIS memo is that they are signaling Adjustment of Status is no longer something officers should view as routine, even for people on dual-intent visas like H-1B and L-1. It literally says maintaining lawful status in a dual-intent category “is not sufficient, on its own, to warrant a favorable exercise of discretion.” That is massive.

From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card for permanent residency must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.

下午在公园冥想🧘‍♂️，做了一次感恩练习，公园的鸟鸣和树叶沙沙声很让人放松，脑海中浮现的都是生命中点滴的美好，我居然闪现过小时候养的小狗，还有爷爷和我去爬山在山上喝茶的片段，和同学们第一次去游乐园的片段，桂林徒步迷路遇到那个老爷爷带路的片段，好多场景。 真好，冥想完整个人都很喜悦。