{"id":668976,"date":"2026-05-27T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:21:07","slug":"trump-administration-begins-making-new-requests-of-green-card-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668976\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration begins making new requests of green-card applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HI756DZVU5BXZPDY6FYXNLNF6Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Immigration officers have begun making new requests of green-card applicants that lawyers believe will stress an already overwhelmed processing system and deter some people from seeking legal status.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NHZRSTEAUNB5DBFURFUWVO272U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2026\/05\/22\/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us\/?itid=ap_david-nakamura_article-list_1_0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2026\/05\/22\/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us\/?itid=ap_david-nakamura_article-list_1_0\">announced Friday<\/a> that most applicants will need to return to their countries of origin to apply for permanent residency, upending a decades-old legal practice that allowed immigrants to apply for a green card from within the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration officers have begun making new requests of green-card applicants that lawyers believe will stress an already overwhelmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-668976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}