Trump Administration Closes the Green Card Adjustment Loophole: Temporary Visitors Must Return Home
This week the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a decisive policy memorandum that restores the original intent of American immigration law. Adjustment of status — the process allowing temporary visa holders to obtain a green card without leaving the United States — will now be treated as the rare, discretionary act of administrative grace it was always meant to be, not a routine shortcut.