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

The Hill · May 22, 2026, 5:14 PM · Also reported by 3 other sources

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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 “re

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