Trump administration says visa holders seeking green cards must apply in home countries, in major change - BERITAJA

The Trump management said Friday that group pinch impermanent visas seeking to set their migration position to get greenish cards must return to their location countries to “do truthful done consular processing,” successful a awesome alteration from existent practice.

“From now on, an alien who is successful the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their location state to apply, isolated from successful bonzer circumstances,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson Zach Kahler said successful a statement. “When aliens use from their location country, it reduces the request to find and region those who determine to gaffe into the shadows and stay successful the U.S. illegally aft being denied residency.”

The connection said that those who travel to America connected non-immigrant visas, including students, impermanent workers and tourists, are expected to beryllium successful the United States for a short clip and for a circumstantial purpose.

“Our strategy is designed for them to time off erstwhile their sojourn is over. Their sojourn should not usability arsenic the first measurement successful the Green Card process,” Kahler said.

“Following the rule allows the mostly of these cases to beryllium handled by the State Department astatine U.S. consular offices overseas and frees up constricted USCIS resources to attraction connected processing different cases that autumn nether its purview, including visas for victims of convulsive crime and quality trafficking, naturalization applications, and different priorities,” he said successful the statement.

He said this process would “make our strategy fairer and much efficient.”

Former USCIS charismatic Doug Rand said that successful a emblematic year, 1 cardinal group use for greenish cards and half of those use from wrong the U.S. to alteration their position while they are surviving here.

“The intent of this argumentation is exclusion,” Rand said successful a statement. “Remember that Trump has banned group from complete 100 countries from returning to the U.S., truthful forcing them to spell overseas for consular processing is nary pathway astatine all.”

The move is the latest by the Trump management targeting ineligible migration successful the country.

World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization, said successful a connection that the argumentation was “cruel” and “anti-family.”

The group said the alteration mostly halts “the longstanding believe of allowing non-citizens who entered the United States lawfully and now suffice nether U.S. rule for Lawful Permanent Resident position to ‘adjust status’ wrong the United States.”

Myal Greene, the president and CEO of the organization, said the argumentation would person contiguous consequences for families.

“This policy, impacting individuals who meet the ineligible requirements for a greenish card, will unit isolated husbands from wives and children from their parents,” Greene said successful the statement. “There’s simply nary compelling logic for this cruel, anti-family argumentation change, and I dream and believe it will beryllium reversed, whether by administrative reconsideration, legislature action aliases the courts.”