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• @nick_davidov Nick Davidov on x

  The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history.  So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog?  This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at leas…

• @andrewyng Andrew Ng on x

  The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

• @garrytan Garry Tan on x

  We need to keep smart people in the country to build the future and build tomorrow's businesses that employ millions of people This is bad and misguided policy

• @theo @theo on x

  This sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can't fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion dollar companies that want to anchor themselves in the US.

• @uscis @uscis on x

  USCIS is applying long-standing law and prior court decisions to require certain aliens with temporary visas who decide they want to permanently reside in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas through the @StateDept. We're returning to the [image…

• @ingrahamangle Laura Ingraham on x

  EXCELLENT!!!! It's called common sense.

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  So basically all elite founders of multi-billion dollar companies contributing to AI and defense have to stop their work in order to convert to GC? Make it make sense.

• @bscholl Blake Scholl on x

  I understand why we don't want people to come to the US to be criminals, mooch on welfare, open learing centers and otherwise undermine the country. But I don't understand why we make it harder for motivated, ambitious, hardworking people to come to the land of opportunity.

• @senatorbanks Senator Jim Banks on x

  Temporary visas are just that—temporary. The immigration system shouldn't incentivize international students and guest workers to stay in the country indefinitely. USCIS is implementing a common-sense rule: if you come to the U.S. and want to stay permanently, you have to go

• @bfaviero Bruno Faviero on x

  Attention Is All You Need, one of the most important AI papers ever.... 7/8 authors were foreign nationals on work/student visas from India, UK, Canada, Ukraine. If we want USA dominance in AI (and tech broadly), we need to attract and retain global ultra-high-skilled talent. [im…

• @chris_j_paxton Chris Paxton on x

  Force all our best researchers to leave the USA and go back to their home countries if they want to become Americans. Complete destruction of America's competitive advantage. Probably the worst policy i have ever seen and it's facing some stiff competition

• @allgarbled Gabe on x

  Bizarre and really makes no sense. I understand the desire to make immigration highly selective, but this is just making the system worse so people give up. Which I realize is the point, but I think that's a stupid way to try to achieve your goals.

• @anshublog Anshu Sharma on x

  Excited to see that we are getting the stapled Green Cards for all legal immigrants with high paying jobs and graduate degrees like we were promised. Thank you @chamath @DavidSacks & friends for your leadership on this.

• @reidhoffman Reid Hoffman on x

  Does this mean AI Researchers, employees, and students will now have to leave the country and wait through a backlog process to continue their work? Harmful move for tech, business, and America broadly...

• @dhsgov @dhsgov on x

  An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation's immigration system is over.

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  This will set back US competitiveness massively unfortunately. They need a US national interest clause for researchers.

• @govkathyhochul Governor Kathy Hochul on x

  Forcing immigrants pursuing green cards legally to leave behind their homes, their jobs, and in some cases their families betrays the very promise that built this country.

• @dhsgov @dhsgov on x

  Yes — it's commonsense 🇺🇸

• @scott_wiener Senator Scott Wiener on x

  The scale of this horrific change is massive. A huge number of visa holders are impacted, including u visa crime victims, people who marry citizens, folks who will be killed or imprisoned if they return to their countries to apply, startup founders & scientists who came here to

• @reichlinmelnick Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on x

  This claim is a LIE. Congress created adjustment of status in 1960. It's not a loophole. In fact, @USCIS's OWN WEBSITE says that getting a green card from inside the United States was expressly intended by Congress! Just wait; give it 24 hours and they'll erase that history. [ima…

• @repchuygarcia Congressman Chuy García on x

  This new policy will force thousands of LEGAL immigrants, including spouses of US citizens, to leave their homes, families, and jobs for weeks or even months to get their green card outside the U.S. This is an absurd and cruel policy.

• @agupta Ankit Gupta on x

  an enormous gift to China

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  Why?

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.

• @rapidresponse47 @rapidresponse47 on x

  .@zakahler: “From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances” https://dailycaller.com/...

• @can @can on x

  china could drop a nuke in silicon valley and still wouldn't do this much damage

• @johnofa John O'Farrell on x

  This would be a huge blow to America's tech sector. This country has always benefited from attracting the world's best and brightest. We should be making that easier, not harder.

• @moultano Ryan Moulton on x

  I wonder how OpenAI continues with their IPO under the threat of imminent deportation for most of their researchers.

• @hunterwalk.com @hunterwalk.com on bluesky

  like, even if you don't care about the humanity of this, it's an incredibly stupid decision from an economic perspective [embedded post]

• @davidjbier David J. Bier on bluesky

  He claims that adjustment of status, which is used for over half of all legal immigrants in the last generation, is actually an EXTRAORDINARY process.  This will be massively disruptive to businesses and families who have to separate to apply at home... uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

• @halfrobot.com @halfrobot.com on bluesky

  I don't know how anyone dealing with immigration law & policy professionally stays sane across political whiplashes.  I've only been wrangling problems in this domain for five years or so and anytime I see an immigration acronym part of my mind begins an infinite scream www.uscis…

• r/TPSVenezuela r on reddit

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Grant ‘Adjustment of Status’ Only in Extraordinary Circumstances

• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Grant ‘Adjustment of Status’ Only in Extraordinary Circumstances

• r/NationalVisaCenter r on reddit

  New USCIS rule for AOS applicants.  I wonder if this will affect those who come on fiance visa.

• r/fednews r on reddit

  USCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Grant ‘Adjustment of Status’ Only in Extraordinary Circumstances

• @macsquirelera @macsquirelera on bluesky

  It has slipped under the radar that USCIS is effectively ending the granting of permanent residency in the US for non working visas

• r/FreeSpeech r on reddit

  Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says (Gift Article)

• r/news r on reddit

  Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says

• r/politics r on reddit

  Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says

• @katiephang Katie Phang on bluesky

  “The change could upend the lives of people who entered the country lawfully through temporary visas and are seeking green cards to remain in the United States, including students, spouses of U.S. citizens and a wide range of foreign workers.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

• @daviddarmofal David Darmofal on bluesky

  Needless to say, this will be a completely unnecessary, monumentally disruptive xenophobic policy by Trump & Vance if it goes into effect.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...