# Trump regime says green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 22, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319 "2026-05-22T20:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319/21 "2026-05-23T17:07:19Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > , I don’t know a single H-1B employee who wasn’t aiming to apply from permanent residency Yup and clearly too many brown people managed to become American this way for the Trump regime, so they want that to stop. As well as, you know, most of the people to ever make a major contribution to American society in any form, but thats a sacrifice they are willing to make for the purity of the American bloodline ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319/22 "2026-05-23T17:09:49Z")
Your statement that “it won’t affect them or people who have green card” led me to believe that you thought there was a difference between permanent residents and green card holders. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319/23 "2026-05-23T17:35:21Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > led me to believe that you thought there was a difference between permanent residents and green card holders. I just meant this specifically affects those who are in the (stupidly long and complicated) bureaucratic process of applying for a green card, not those who are just on a visa or have already got a green card. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319/24 "2026-05-23T17:42:24Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Do they have to go to their home country, or could they “flagpole” through Canada? Another example of bad reporting here. It’s not actually clear from the article if that’s the case or not. The article says “People applying for permanent residency. . . .will have to go through consular processing outside the country instead” which implies yes. But then the quote from the USCIS says "When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.” which implies no. An actual journalist doing their job would actually ask a follow up question to clarify this rather than just thoughtless quoting the regime verbatim. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319/25 "2026-05-29T21:22:41Z")
Back in the 90s, when i worked with a lot of legal immigrants, i think the ones from normal countries had to go home to apply for their green cards. (We had a lot of refugees from the Soviet Disunion, they didn’t need to leave the US.) I think the usual practice was for them to take a month or two of vacation/leave for this to happen. We didn’t give a lot of paid vacation, so maybe that was partly unpaid leave? I don’t remember the details. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-regime-says-green-card-seekers-must-leave-u-s-to-apply/1030319.md?page=1)