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    Trump administration upends green card process, potentially compelling hundreds of thousands to leave US to apply

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    3. jtmj121 on

      Pretty sure the point is to get people to self deport then deny their application. Of course its fucked.

    5. SaveUsCatman on

      The point is to make them leave or arrest them. I doubt they will have an easy time trying to get back in

    8. Unfair_Elderberry118 on

      Trump loves the act of moving the goalposts on people who aren’t sexist, racist white males.. He has been guilty of abusing kids since he started milking his daddy’s businesses to cover-up his fuckups in the 80s. Just like his daddy he is just a greedy scam artist with abusive tendencies.

    10. JFJinCO on

      I’m sure they all have the money and passports for international travel… smh

    11. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

      So family separation is an INTENTIONAL policy goal of the Trump administration.

      Not to mention, in language that conservatives might understand, the sheer financial and economic cost of this operation and the strain it puts on the state and labor department, and even American businesses and employers.

      It’s the same story over and over again. The Trump administration tries to frame its disastrous and intentionally punishing policies as cost cutting, but the financial logic actually runs the opposite direction.

    13. sakumar on

      Many people are offered jobs (say, right after grad school) with the promise from the hiring company that they will get them their green card due to their specialized skills. Meanwhile they work on a temporary work permit.

      There are country-wise per-year numerical limits on most work related permanent residency visa categories. So, depending on their country of birth, they will wait years, even decades, for their green card. Meanwhile, they establish roots here—children, house/mortgage, softball team. And so on. This rule requires that they uproot all that, go back to the home country, and wait out the years. No one will go for that. I mean, imagine a cardiologist completing their residency at Johns Hopkins — suddenly they are supposed to pack up and leave for an indeterminate time?

      Here’s a related story: [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/health/trump-h1b-visa-fee-doctors.html?smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/health/trump-h1b-visa-fee-doctors.html?smid=url-share)

    14. lythander on

      So without trying to rationalise anything this regime does, don’t many other western countries already do this? I know in the UK there are visas you cannot file for from within the UK and foreign nationals in the US (say on H1B visas) have to return to their country to renew them.

      Again, not defending the move, but these days I’ve only got so much outrage to go around and I’d like to keep it focused on, say, getting the Epstein files released.

    16. Exotic-Ferret-3452 on

      I’m sure there will be exceptions for white South Africans and Russians.

    19. _GD5_ on

      I have a friend waiting in line to get a K-1 visa. That visa is explicitly for coming to the US, getting married and then doing a change of status to get a green. What happens to them now? Is there no point to K-1 visas anymore?

    21. aeolus811tw on

      south and southeast asian adore trump for some reason, and they are the largest GC applicant pools.

      this leopard will probably need GLP1 to lose weight now

    24. Gandolfthewhite182 on

      This would simply decimate the tech sector, I’m guessing this gets walked back.

    25. fermat9990 on

      This should reduce the temperature in the US.,White people reflect more light.

    28. picircle on

      No impact to H1B, L1 and other work visa types. They may be an impact for F1 but they will convert to H1.
      It’s impossible to stop them. The Indian Consulting giants control the US companies. the jobs are already being offshored. You are cooked either ways!
      MAGA has no clue. They need to hire a H1B specialized workers to understand the process!

    29. boomgoon on

      Does his administration not understand taxes at all and how much this is going to hurt the US. At this point states should stop sending money to the government so they have the money to take care of what they need to take care of in their own state government and not rely on the federal government anymore.

    30. Interesting-Potato-6 on

      The lawsuits are going to start immediately as Trump doesn’t have the authority to do this on his own.

    31. Background-Crow4820 on

      Two of my good friends (theyre brothers) are from Guatemala, hardest workers you will ever meet. Nicest guys ever too.

      This is insane. Id better not lose my friends and their families. His little girl comes to our work sometimes, same age as my daughter.

    32. kaykatzz on

      Or maybe stay home and apply elsewhere, where they’ll be appreciated.

      No worries, we have Ai to take their hundreds of thousands of jobs and pay all the taxes they would have generated, cars they would have bought, rent and mortgages they would have paid, etc… all for free! /s

    33. 37Philly on

      Stephen Miller will be remembered in the history books with Jefferson Davis and Benedict Arnold.

    34. imjustsurfin on

      What are the odds that legal challenges, once they reach SCOTUS – which at least one of them will – will succeed?

      It’s deportation in all but name.

    35. jcpopm on

      Hi, doctor here. I work in an undeserved area which is largely staffed by physicians on the visa waiver program who ultimately apply for green cards and continue to work in the area. If this were to go into effect you would have entire subregions of the country that are quite literally dependent on foreign-born US-trained physicians suddenly lose access to medical care. These are areas that are unable to offer competitive salaries (whether due to lack of funds or just generally unappealing places to live) and as a result have a permanent shortage of doctors, nurses, techs, etc.

    36. VeryRareHuman on

      It’s sad for them and us losing talent. I am not sad for the companies paid money and kissed the ring. 

      There is a silver lining I see. These Indians green card holders (most of them) are Trump supporters. They can’t vote. But sure they liked him.

    37. poinifie on

      So does this affect those who already have a green card they need to renew?

    40. LegitimateQuit194 on

      Ripping families apart with this mess and the threat to denaturalize on unseen levels while and shredding what little reputation this country still had, I give you the party of small government and freedom everyone.

    41. Steimertaler on

      Waiting for the Trump Card to come… Being sold by Trump. On Lie Social.

    44. GeistMD on

      Republicans are such a disease on society. All they do is infect the world with hate a bigotry. I can not wait till the world finds a cure.

    45. johnnybsomething on

      No one should do business in dementia donny’s fascist america. Boycott until this nonsense is over.