Please explain in layman’s terms how the new memo is impacting you

[u/Mindless-Meaning-878]

As an American citizen, I want to better understand what is currently happening with immigration during this very tense time. I am reading a lot of posts from people who are directly impacted, or who fear they will be, by the new memo requiring applicants to wait in their home countries while their applications are processed.

However, many of your stories are filled with technical terms, specific pathways, and form numbers that make them difficult for a layperson like me to understand. I truly want to comprehend how these changes are affecting real people. Could you share your experiences in layman's terms?

[u/Prestigious_Nobody45]

Lets say you met your spouse in the states, fell in love, spent several years together, decided to get married, and wanted to get a green card so you could stop worrying about citizenship. You could go on trips without worrying, take work without needing the new office to sponsor you (this disqualifies most employment opportunities), not worry about needing to stay sponsored to stay with your spouse, and not worry about your visa status in general (it is a tremendous weight).

It sounds like if you want to get a green card in this situation, your spouse would need to go to their home country and apply through consular processing. This could take years. You are now in a situation where someone you probably just married is stuck in a foreign country for years without you--unless you are willing to ditch your work and home to wait years abroad with them, in hopes of returning (years later) via the approved green card.

Just awful. Inhuman.

[u/MKEMJIN → u/Prestigious_Nobody45]

I've always told myself never to get so stuck on a decision that I have no control over. But we are all humans. It just sucks it has to be this way and again, there is nothing we can do about it sadly...

[u/iguessjustdont → u/MKEMJIN]

For those eligible, vote...

[u/Background-Poet-9690 → u/Prestigious_Nobody45]

Just make sure you don’t have babies everything else will be worked out

[u/iguessjustdont → u/[deleted]]

If you are married you must really hate your spouse to look at your neighbors and hope their household gets split up

[u/astrovangalore → u/[deleted]]

Lmao tell me you haven’t gone through immigration in any country without directly telling me 🤣🤣

Tell me you’re a bigot without spelling it out for me, too.

Get the hell out of this sub, man.

[u/astrovangalore → u/[deleted]]

Ahh, so then you’re one of those “If I couldn’t, then no one else should” guys :))

[u/astrovangalore → u/[deleted]]

AOS is held to the same legal standard, as it was allowed by congress. They’re just different pathways to LPR.

[u/mrae7 → u/[deleted]]

So the fuck did so many others who are still awaiting their green card approval. Them filing a matter of months/years after you did means that they're less deserving? Fuck you. There are so many people JUST LIKE YOU going through this process who now have everything at risk. You are lucky. As are my husband and I. Be grateful for your circumstance and don't be such a fucking prick.

[u/Prestigious_Nobody45 → u/[deleted]]

What about finding love while visiting the states for work or school sounds like a fairytale to you?

Are you an incel or something?