The USCIS's new memo encourages immigrants to apply for a green card from outside the U.S. – even if they're already here.

The State Department plans to slash the number of U.S. embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas for foreigners seeking to come to the United States.

Because employees have routinely been able to adjust status from within the United States, U.S. employers with immigration ...

The Trump administration’s latest immigration policy of recasting ‘adjustment of status’ as an ‘extraordinary’ discretionary benefit and pushing many green card applicants toward consular processing ...

A May 21, 2026, USCIS policy memo reframes I-485 adjustment of status as "extraordinary relief" rather than a standard ...

Some USCIS officers have begun asking green-card applicants why they chose Adjustment of Status (AOS) rather than consular processing abroad following the agency's controversial May 22 policy memo, ...

USCIS has directed its officers to apply adjustment of status, as a matter of discretion and administrative grace and only as an extraordinary relief.

Immigration law experts say the policy change is unclear on who would be required to actually leave the United States.

Effective September 21, 2025, new H-1B petitions may be subject to a $100,000 payment requirement under a Presidential Proclamation on Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers (September ...

USCIS stresses that 'adjustment of status' is an 'extraordinary discretionary' relief from the regular immigrant visa process and is an act of administrative grace. All non-immigrants, including ...

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