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Por Michael Williams, CNN

El Gobierno de Trump ahora exigirá que las personas que buscan la “green card” salgan de Estados Unidos durante el proceso de solicitud —un cambio radical que podría trastocar la vida de cientos de miles de personas que buscan el derecho a vivir y trabajar legal y permanentemente en EE.UU.

En una nueva norma anunciada el viernes, el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés) dijo que los solicitantes de la “green card” tendrían que regresar a sus países de origen para solicitar visas de residencia permanente. La norma contempla exenciones por “circunstancias extraordinarias”, dijo el portavoz de USCIS, Zach Kahler, en un comunicado.

“Cuando los extranjeros solicitan desde su país de origen, se reduce la necesidad de encontrar y expulsar a quienes deciden pasar a la clandestinidad y permanecer en EE.UU. ilegalmente después de que se les niegue la residencia”, dijo Kahler.

Solicitar una “green card” ya es un proceso notoriamente arduo que puede tardar de varios meses a años en completarse. La nueva norma podría obligar a cientos de miles de inmigrantes a dejar sus empleos, familias y comunidades mientras se tramita su solicitud.

Aproximadamente 1,4 millones de personas obtuvieron la residencia permanente legal en el año fiscal 2024, según datos públicos publicados por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional.

Es probable que la nueva norma enfrente impugnaciones legales.

Si bien el endurecimiento contra la inmigración ilegal ha sido una prioridad principal para el Gobierno de Trump, la nueva norma representa solo el ejemplo más reciente de cómo la administración también está intentando frenar las formas legales de inmigración.

La administración ha realizado esfuerzos para reducir significativamente las solicitudes de asilo; puso fin al estatus de protección temporal para varios países, lo que permitió que quienes huían de desastres naturales, guerras u otras condiciones peligrosas vivieran en EE.UU. sin temor a ser deportados; detuvo las admisiones de refugiados excepto para sudafricanos blancos; y restringió las visas de trabajo y de estudiante.

Tras el tiroteo del año pasado contra dos soldados de la Guardia Nacional en Washington la administración anunció que estaba reexaminando todas las “green cards” emitidas a personas de 19 países “de preocupación”.

Sin embargo, el presunto autor de ese tiroteo, un ciudadano afgano, solicitó asilo —un proceso diferente al proceso de solicitud de la “green card”— en 2021, y le fue concedido en 2025.

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - May grey is back for the weekend.

Temperatures will remain in the high 60s through Monday.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday, we will cool further with gusty onshore winds.

By midweek 20 - 35 mph northwest winds are expected for the Central Coast.

Warming back up to normal is expected by next Friday for the last weekend of May.

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By Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — The Trump administration will now require people seeking green cards to leave the United States during the application process — a sweeping change that could upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of people seeking the right to legally and permanently live and work in the US.

In a new rule announced Friday, US Citizenship and Immigration Services said green card applicants would have to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas. The rule provides exemptions for “extraordinary circumstances,” USCIS spokesperson Zach Kahler said in a statement.

“When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the US illegally after being denied residency,” Kahler said.

Applying for a green card is already a notoriously arduous process that can take several months to years to complete. The new rule could force hundreds of thousands of immigrants to leave their jobs, families and communities while their application is processed.

About 1.4 million people obtained lawful permanent residence in fiscal year 2024, according to public data posted by the Department of Homeland Security.

The new rule is likely to face legal challenges.

While cracking down on illegal immigration has been a top priority for the Trump administration, the new rule represents just the latest example of how the administration is also attempting to curb legal forms of immigration.

The administration has made efforts to significantly reduce asylum claims; ended the temporary protected status for several countries, which allowed those fleeing natural disasters, wars or other dangerous conditions to live in the US without fear of being deported; halted refugee admissions except for White South Africans; and restricted work and student visas.

Following last year’s shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC, the administration announced it was reexamining all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern.”

However, the alleged perpetrator of that shooting, an Afghan national, applied for asylum — a different process than the green card applications process — in 2021, and it was granted in 2025.

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