New U.S. green card policy could impact Canadians seeking permanent residency: lawyer
The shift could affect hundreds of thousands of immigrants and send most applicants to already overburdened U.S. consulates abroad, lawyers said.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump's administration announced a policy requiring most green card applicants to leave the United States and complete the process from their home countries, significantly altering the "adjustment of status" process.
- USCIS spokesperson Zach Kahler stated the policy "allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes," aiming to reduce illegal immigration after green card denials.
- About 1.4 million green cards were issued in 2024, with more than 820,000 approvals going to applicants already inside the United States through "adjustment of status," including nearly 160,000 in Washington over the last decade.
- Immigration lawyers expressed immediate confusion regarding what constitutes "extraordinary circumstances," prompting expectations of legal challenges and warnings that consulate backlogs could cause months or years of family separations.
- Forcing applicants to leave could trigger three- or 10-year bars to reentry for those living illegally in the country for more than six months, said Seattle University adjunct law professor Jay Gairson, while officers must weigh family ties in decisions.
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Evangelical Group Condemns New Green Cards Policy
The Christian Post reports: An Evangelical humanitarian organization has condemned a Trump administration policy memo that could require many immigrants who entered the United States lawfully to leave the country while seeking lawful permanent residence. World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization that is authorized to resettle refugees in the U.S., said the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ policy would affect people who entere…
A new federal policy that could force thousands of migrants to return to their countries of origin before applying for a residence card or green card has immigration applicants and lawyers struggling to understand how it will affect the shift to permanent residence. On Friday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, the agency that oversees the green card system, said that only in “extraordinary circumstances” would permanent residence be …
Evangelical group condemns Trump policy change impacting immigrants who entered lawfully
An Evangelical humanitarian organization has condemned a Trump administration policy memo that could require many immigrants who entered the United States lawfully to leave the country while seeking lawful permanent residence.
The U.S. administration has tightened the conditions for admission to permanent resident status in the United States. From now on, candidates for the famous "Green Card" will have to make the moves in their country of origin and no longer from the U.S. territory, which requires holders of temporary residence permits to leave their homes for a long journey. The news has caused a shock in the African diaspora, and in particular Cameroon.
The new policy is likely to lead to long delays and complications for applicants for permanent residence who already live in the United States.
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