A significant change to the US green card process has thrown both immigration attorneys and applicants into disarray. The shift affects how applicants move through the adjustment of status or consular processing track, with new requirements or timelines that diverge from long-standing procedures.
The exact nature of the change—whether it involves documentation, interview procedures, or processing timelines—has created uncertainty across the immigration bar. Immigration lawyers report clients facing unexpected delays or new requests for evidence they believed had already been submitted. This kind of mid-process change is particularly disruptive because applicants and their attorneys may have planned around the old procedures.