Some 540,000 family-based and around 170,000 employment-based green card applications are currently pending with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), show data from the agency. A May 22 memo announcing the policy did not specify whether it would apply only to new applications or also have retrospective effect.

Trump's immigration policy limits green card status adjustments, causing confusion and debate among lawyers, advocates, and policy experts.

The Department of Homeland Security's move is part of a wider push to restrict both legal and illegal immigration.

Immigrants and their advocates and lawyers are trying to interpret a new Trump administration rule that requires people to be in their native country to apply for a green card.

In a significant policy update, the US government has categorized green card adjustments as a scarce discretionary privilege, a decision that may force many Indian H-1B visa holders to pursue their applications outside the country.

US lawmakers and immigration advocates criticise the Trump administration's new green card policy that requires applicants to apply from their home countries, calling it reckless and harmful.

US health authorities said they plan to temporarily bar permanent residents of the country from reentering if they’ve traveled recently to Ebola-affected areas in a new rule published Friday.

The Trump administration’s latest immigration policy of recasting ‘adjustment of status’ as an ‘extraordinary’ discretionary benefit and pushing many green card applicants toward consular processing abroad is expected to trigger immediate litigation,