re: Absolute MELT as Green Card Applications must now be made from Home Country

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The courts are there to adjudicate oversteps just like this. See: Callais where SCOTUS not only overruled part of the Voting Rights Act but also its own lower court whose ignorant ruling caused Callais to happen in the first place.

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The release said that “consistent with long-standing immigration law and immigration court decisions, aliens seeking adjustment of status must do so through consular processing via the Department of State outside of the country.”

“Officers are directed to consider all relevant factors and information on a case-by-case basis when determining whether an alien warrants this extraordinary form of relief,” the release said.

“We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,” agency representative Zach Kahler said in the news release.

“From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes,” he said.

“Following the law allows the majority of these cases to be handled by the State Department at U.S. consular offices abroad and frees up limited USCIS resources to focus on processing other cases that fall under its purview, including visas for victims of violent crime and human trafficking, naturalization applications, and other priorities,”.

Kahler said the change is a return to the way the green card system was supposed to work.

“The law was written this way for a reason, and despite the fact that it has been ignored for years, following it will help make our system fairer and more efficient,”

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