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.