Immigration Accountability Project Action

The Trump administration is now telling people who entered the country legally to “go home” and apply for green cards there. These are immigrants already legally working in the United States.   It was never about illegal immigration.

Forcing immigrants pursuing green cards legally to leave behind their homes, their jobs, and in some cases their families betrays the very promise that built this country.

You study in the US, get an OPT, fall in love and get married, find a job, maybe even have a kid And then to be a permanent resident you need to quit your job, move away from your family and somehow survive 6 months in a country you left 4 years ago Ridiculous policy

Can USCIS eliminate the ability of noncitizens to adjust status to permanent resident in the US, requiring them to return home and consular process at the American Embassy in their home country before returning to obtain green card status? Nope. Because _Congress_ said adjustment of status is available. In 1960. And since then has amended the adjustment of status law 20 times, setting new restrictions. This is not a “loophole.” Is USCIS establishing a new standard in its May 21st Policy Memo that any noncitizen must prove “extraordinary circumstances” in order to be eligible for adjustment of status to permanent resident here in the US? Well, nowhere in the Policy Memo does the agency use the term “extraordinary circumstances” - Crtl-F, it’s not there. USCIS has binding regulations that set out the requirements for adjustment of status, and if it wants to change those rules, it must comply with the Administrative Procedure Act and propose a new regulation. A Policy Memorandum cannot conflict with a law that has been on the books for 65 years. Does USCIS have discretion when it reviews applications to adjust status? Yes! Can it do through the back door what it cannot do through the front door? Nope.

This admin continues to prove itself to be the most anti-legal immigration admin in US history. The harms this will cause to legal immigrants is incalculable. Impossible to explain how stupid and evil this policy is. It's intended to cost people their jobs and their families.

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.

Um, “immigrants” don’t need to pursue anything because “immigrants” already have green cards—that’s what the word “immigrant” actually means. This rule applies to “nonimmigrants.” And since you obviously don’t know what that word means, it means they are here on TEMPORARY visas. Presumably, you can figure out what “temporary” means.