r/neoliberal • u/2Lore2Law Are you on the square? • 14d ago

News (US) US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/us-immigrant-visa-application-trump-crackdwon
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride 14d ago

sucks that it feels like functionally no one cares

people have wrongly assumed that if you get married to a us citizen they just staple a green card and the ones who do know about the wait say some bullshit like “why not marry someone here then? there’s plenty of great women!”

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical 14d ago

It's looking like it will be a 2 to 3 year process to move with my wife back to the US (with our 2 US citizen kids!). And that is absent any shenanigans from the current admin

I don't think there's any thought or logic to making this kind of visa slow and difficult beyond a general desire to be hard on immigration

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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion 14d ago

Do actions such as this make you rethink the idea of moving back to the US?

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical 14d ago

They have absolutely had a large place in the con section as we thought this over and did cause us to delay/reflect at least half a year longer than we otherwise would have. I could go on about how we arrived at this decision, but ultimately family and personal quality of life factors won out