I was under the impression that this is roughly how it works (assume equivalency) in most European countries is it not?

jesseendahl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, it is not. And if you fall in love and want to get married to someone on a student visa, your fiancée should not need to leave the country for a year or two to wait for paperwork to process. Which is one of the real world impacts of this change.

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refurb an hour ago | parent [-]

Why wouldn’t your spouse just stay on the student visa? From what I gather it’s purely the processing that is overseas.

Stay on whatever visa you’re on -> apply for consular processing -> travel for interview -> enter on green card

	▲	kettlecorn 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The green card process can take 9 to 20 months and applying for a green card demonstrates an intent to immigrate so it's highly likely attempts to return on other temporary visas like a student visa will be denied. So they likely have to wait out the green card process abroad unless they secure a dual-intent visa like an H-1B. There's also 75 countries that the US has shut down consular processing for so those people may be locked out getting a green card entirely.

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_fizz_buzz_ an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Absolutely not. My wife could apply for German permanent residency as well as now German citizenship from within Germany. She has been living in Germany for 10 years now and at no point in the process did she have to go through a German consulate (she is a US citizen).

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nyargh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For many immigration statuses in Sweden, you must leave and apply outside of the country (outside of Schengen for non EU-citizens) to change status. This was even the case before the current right wing government was elected.

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busterarm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Except for the part about requiring you to leave to process your application.

Wait times to process applications depend on your country of origin and visa type. If you are an H1B from India that was already decades approaching never. Same for Brazil and elsewhere.

And that was before Trump. All that was practically halted.