Published May 22, 2026, 1:14 PM ET · Updated 6 months ago · 4 sources

Trump directs legal migrants to return to home country to apply for green cards

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The Trump administration on Friday announced prospective immigrants would need to return to their home country to apply for green cards, a move that would stifle the most common pathway used for legal immigration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) portrayed the new policy memo as “returning to the original intent of the law,” while…