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The Trump administration on Friday issued a sweeping policy directive requiring most temporary visa holders and humanitarian parolees living in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for and complete their green card<\/a> applications.<\/p>\n

The policy memo issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown<\/a>, instructs agency officers to treat U.S.-based “adjustment of status” applications as an “extraordinary form of relief.”<\/p>\n

“We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson Zach Kahler said in a statement. “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.”<\/p>\n

Immigration lawyers told ABC News the new policy could impact hundreds of thousands of people with temporary work visas who are pursuing permanent residency from within the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rosanna Berardi, an immigration lawyer in New York, said the policy would affect any foreign national with a pending U.S.-filed green card application, including legal workers and humanitarian parolees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Afghans who assisted U.S. forces, Ukrainians fleeing war, face a specific trap: The memo treats their choice to apply for a green card inside the U.S. as an adverse factor, because their admission was temporary,” Berardi said. “Many have nowhere safe to return to.”<\/p>\n

Immigration attorney Todd Pomerleaus said the Immigration and Nationality Act allows individuals who were legally inspected and admitted into the country to adjust their status from within the U.S.<\/p>\n

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“You can’t, through a stroke of a pen, overturn a statute,” he said. “I think it’s illegal, and it’s going to get shut down in court very quickly,” Pomerleau\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shev Dalal-Dheini, the senior government director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told ABC News that Congress designed the U.S.-based adjustment framework to prevent families from being separated and to ensure U.S. companies could retain employees during visa backlogs.<\/p>\n

“Since the 1950s, Congress has specifically allowed non-immigrants to adjust their status in the United States to that of a green card, and over the course of years they’ve slowly expanded that eligible class,” Dalal-Dheini said. “The statutory scheme is pretty well set, and it’s been around for many, many decades.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This administration says they’re going to go after people who are criminals, but in the same breath, they are upending [the process] for people who are trying to follow the law,” Dalal Dheini said. “These are individuals who came here legally or were admitted legally … and now overnight, without any advance warning, through a policy memo, they are upending it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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