NY Times - The Trump administration said on Friday that most foreigners seeking green cards will have to return to their home countries to apply, a remarkable change that could make it more difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to obtain permanent residency.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that oversees the legal immigration system, said it would grant green cards to people inside the country only in “extraordinary circumstances.” People applying for permanent residency, which is one step away from citizenship, will have to go through consular processing outside the country instead, according to a memo issued by the agency.
“This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes,” Zach Kahler, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement. “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.”
Makes perfect sense. Who - aside from a bunch of jerkoff lawyers -
could argue something as simple and as logical as this?
These are the same ones I have in my kitchen.
Overturned by liberal pissant district court judge in 3... 2... 1...
ReplyDeletehow many h1b folks whose visa expired are still here?
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Japan for some years, I had to leave the country for 24 hours every six months, just to get my visa renewed. Oh, and the policemen in the neighborhood office knew where all we foreigners lived and would visit us (out of politeness you understand; just to see how we were doing) every few months.
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