Why on earth would they need to wait years?

SyneRyder 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From the article:

"Forcing green card applicants to leave will render many green card applicants’ ineligible because, when they leave the United States, they will trigger the 3- or 10-year bars on receiving an immigrant visa based on accrual of unlawful presence."

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timr 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, that's a wild leap to conclusions. The "accrual of unlawful presence" is when you overstay a visa, or otherwise stay in the USA illegally. Here's the definition:

https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/unlawf...

Note particularly the following:

> Asylees and asylum applicants: Generally, time while a bona fide asylum application is pending is not counted as unlawful presence.

So unless there's currently a huge backlog of people staying here illegally who are somehow eligible for green cards in spite of this fact, the government changing it's policies to require new applicants do so from overseas is not itself causing these applicants to violate immigration law.

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		That note is grossly wrong though, ICE was/is putting them in jail while they appear for immigration hearing at courts.
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lazide 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Says right in the comment.

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coolThingsFirst 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Consular processing isn't that backlogged for majority of countries that's what i meant.

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mynameisvlad an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's just plainly untrue.

https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/new-data-shows-visa...

With the raw data from 2023-2024 here: https://refugeerights.app.box.com/s/bizdcdev37oknqdwg8p93afi...

USCIS doesn't publish data on consular processing times, but even AoS processing were backlogged 3+ years. https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-pr...

The majority of consular offices are, in fact, backlogged.

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wtmt 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is consular processing prioritizing adjustment of status applications? Here in India, as of now, a consular appointment for a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa application is about eight months away. The COVID pandemic was mostly over about three years ago and there’s still not enough processing capacity.

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behnamoh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As an Iranian, it took 4 months for me to get a F1 visa. Now it's completely banned.

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