A week after the USCIS announced that immigrants will have to leave the US and wait in their home countries for the Green Card, the administration has changed its stance as industries pressed the panic button. Now the administration said it was not a big policy change and not all immigrants seeking Green Cards will be required to return to their home country and, in fact, a majority of them won't.

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

Under a policy memorandum issued last week Trump administration said it would reserve green card approvals for “extraordinary circumstances.”

The Department of Homeland Security clarified that most green card applicants can remain in the U.S. during processing, easing concerns from an earlier announcement. This decision…

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services had said that those seeking permanent residency would have to return to their home countries for Green Cards.

The US Department of Homeland Security announced that most immigrants seeking green cards can remain in the country during application processing, denying any major policy shift.

The US department of homeland security (DHS) has clarified that people applying for green cards do not need to leave the United States while their applications are being…

US maintains case-by-case discretion, rejects sweeping change to residency rules

A week after the USCIS announced that immigrants will have to leave the US and wait in their home countries for the Green Card, the administration has changed its stance as…

A Trump administration directive announced last week threatened to require most applicants for permanent residency to wait out the process in their home country.