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In the past, visa holders have been able to file for an adjustment of status in the U.S.
and in many cases stay while it was pending.
The memo reiterates that visa holders looking to get a green card, which is a permanent residency, must apply from their home countries.
People like international students or skilled workers with H-1B visas.
In the memo, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, said the pathway to permanent residency has been abused for decades and that people who are denied or in waiting sometimes stay illegally.
Immigration advocates say it would place people fleeing dangerous circumstances in vulnerable positions in which they'd have to return to that danger.
Jasmine Garz to NPR News, New York.
In the past, visa holders have been able to file for an adjustment of status in the U.S.
and in many cases stay while it was pending.
The memo reiterates that visa holders looking to get a green card, which is a permanent residency, must apply from their home countries.
People like international students or skilled workers with H-1B visas.
In the memo, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, said the pathway to permanent residency has been abused for decades and that people who are denied or in waiting sometimes stay illegally.
Immigration advocates say it would place people fleeing dangerous circumstances in vulnerable positions in which they'd have to return to that danger.
Jasmine Garz to NPR News, New York.
Hayem El-Gamal's ex-husband, Mohamed Salomon, is accused of perpetrating the fatal firebombing of peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year.
Following the attack, Algamal and their children, ranging in age from 5 to 18, were detained at the Dilley Processing Center in Texas.
They were investigated and cleared by the FBI of any knowledge of the attack.
They've been detained for 324 days.
Today, a federal judge ordered them released with ankle monitors.
In a statement to NPR, DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Biss wrote, quote, Muhammad Salomon is a terrorist responsible for an anti-Semitic firebombing in Boulder.