![MD_pause's tweet photo. *Doctors in Limbo: The human Cost of USCIS Policy Pause PM-602-0192/94*
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,”
“In the middle of this war, [our family in Iran] is praying for us in the US — not for themselves!!.”
Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab is an Iranian physician-scientist who spent years in the United States as a postgraduate fellow and radiology researcher at Stanford Medicine. Her research work in multimodal imaging and advanced MRI techniques has been cited nearly 400 times. As an accomplished physician-scientist, she secured a highly competitive radiology residency position this year, poised to translate that talent and expertise into direct benefit for medicine and patients in the US. The USCIS itself had already recognized the exceptional value of her work, approving her green card petition on the basis of extraordinary ability and national interest (Einstein Green Card).
Then came the final step: paperwork to receive the green card.
In December, USCIS policy pause PM-602-0192/94 took effect without warning and was applied retroactively to people who had filed many months earlier, with no remedies for reliance issues. Suddenly, not only was her green card frozen, but so too were the work authorization benefits normally available during the process. She was swept into the policy because she was born in Iran, one of 39 affected countries, despite years of lawful presence and meaningful contribution in the United States.
Because residency positions run on fixed timelines, the impact would be devastating to their careers, she and her husband filed suit to challenge the policy. They won a preliminary injunction, with the judge finding they were likely to succeed on the merits and signaling that the indefinite pause policy was likely arbitrary and unlawful. That should have been the end of it.
It was not.
Once the judge ordered pause to be lifted, on March 20, USCIS denied her green card, saying she was not “sufficiently candid and truthful.” Her attorney disputes this and argues the denial is unjustified.
Per CNN reporting : Morrison called the agency’s denial a “manufactured allegation” that is retaliatory in nature, alleging the application was denied because Shokri Varniab is an Iranian
national. The case is ongoing in courts.
On the very same day USCIS denied her application, Dr. Shokri Varniab matched into a six-year diagnostic radiology research track residency, a remarkable achievement in one of the most competitive specialties in medicine. This year, only 16% of immigrant applicants to diagnostic radiology secured a position.
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,” she said.
Now she faces the same uncertainty as so many others: after years of training, research, and legal compliance, she still does not know whether she will be allowed to begin her residency in July. Her attorney has moved to challenge the denial. Case is ongoing in federal courts.
Security reviews can and should be conducted on an individualized, evidence-based basis, rather than through broad measures that may affect entire groups without regard to individual circumstances. The practical effect is that highly trained, law-abiding physicians may be sidelined from patient care at the very moment they are ready to serve, for reasons unrelated to their personal conduct. The result is disruption not only to their lives and careers, but also to patient care and the american communities that depend on them.
Compiled from CNN reporting by @MichalRuprecht and publicly reported interviews with affected physicians, highlighting the human impact of USCIS policy OM-602-0192/94.
https://t.co/4I4udGEwY5
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USCIS quietly unpaused doctors under PM-602-0192.
But engineers, scientists, researchers, and students are still trapped in silence with no timeline, no explanation, and no due process.
So which is it?
A national security policy?
Or a selective labor policy?
Because thousands of legal immigrants who studied in American universities, work in critical industries, and followed every rule are still being punished without answers.
America cannot lead in innovation while pushing talent away behind closed doors.
@SecMullinDHS @RandPaul @SenGaryPeters @USCISJoe
#USCISpause #LiftTheHold
Alrededor de los EE.UU., legislación en contra de inmigrantes está fallando en asambleas estatales—en gran parte porque la comunidad comercial se está oponiendo. Estoy feliz que más personas están reconociendo las contribuciones que los inmigrantes traen a nuestra nación.
USCIS’s pause on 39 countries (PM-602-0192) is quietly punishing thousands of legal STEM scholars, doctors & professionals who followed every rule, paid full fees, and are already contributing to U.S. research & healthcare.
Nationality shouldn’t freeze due process.
Jobs are being lost. Lives are on hold.
Time to #LiftTheHold and resume fair adjudication.
#USCISPause #ScientistsInLimbo
This is a big win in the fight against Trump's racist immigration policies.
We must preserve and expand legal pathways for those who want to pursue better lives in the U.S. I'll keep fighting to ensure those who come here can thrive.
https://t.co/ddN2kgVPqD
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Trump’s @USCIS has intentionally turned a 15-day renewal process into a 122-day nightmare, manufacturing a crisis to fuel his lawless immigration dragnet.
Dreamers are our healthcare workers, teachers, and neighbors. They have been here since they were children and have built their lives here.
This is, unsurprisingly, a heartless betrayal of our nation’s values. Dreamers deserve better than this.
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شالی زمردی امروز در مورد #USCISPause حرف زده در فاکس اگر میتونید برید کامنت بگذارید ریشر کنید دیده بشه
بلاگر آشنا هم اکر میشناسید بفرستید بی زحمت شر کنه بلکه دری گشوده شد
#LiftTheHold
https://t.co/YXga32bmDP
The Trump Admin’s new rule to end automatic extensions on work permit renewals for workers with legal status is unfair for everyone who is filing on time and following the rules. They shouldn’t be punished because our government has a backlog and doesn’t have the staff to process their applications on time.
In Las Vegas, I heard from immigration service providers about how this rule is harmful for immigrant families, their employers, and our economy. When I get back to Washington, I’m forcing a vote to overturn this unfair rule.
Trump is now attacking immigrants who are lawfully in the US but not yet citizens, denying them publicly subsidized housing, commercial driver’s licenses, and access to bank and business loans. Their US citizen family members are also hurt. https://t.co/klKBdY9SKW
Trump's immigration crackdown is sidelining skilled healthcare professionals we desperately need. Cruelty over compassion hurts us all.
#USCISpause
پیرو این حرکت دانشگاهی (Lift The Hold Univeristy Action)، برنامه به اینصورت هست که از هر ایالت دست کم یک شخص، ترجیحا دانشجو و در ارتباط با دبیر گروهای ISA دانشگاه های اون ایالت، به عنوان ادمین انتخاب شود.
این ادمین(ها)، بصورت internal مسوولیت هماهنگی گروه های دانشجویی هر ایالت را بر عهده خواهند داشت.
ما در این حرکت دنبال تدارک جلساتی با رییس دانشگاهها هستیم تا از آنها بخواهیم در جهت برداشتن USCIS pause، یک اقدام عملی صورت دهند. این اقدام در قالب یک بیانیه/نامه رسمی خطاب به افرادی که مستقیما مسوول USCIS Pause هستند، خواهد بود.
پ.ن: هدف ما ایجاد Noise و فشار حداکثری هست و استفاده از این اهرم که تا چه حد دانشگاه های آمریکا درکوتاه و بلند مدت تحت تاثیر سیاست های غلط USCIS خواهند بود.
» در صورت تمایل لطفا با معرفی خود و ذکر دانشگاه و ایالت به من پیام بدهید.
#LifTheHold
Iranian students, scholars, and professionals are financially suffering due to the #USCISPause on immigration and work authorization applications. Iranians are among the most successful, pro-American, and freedom-loving immigrants, and they also contribute greatly to the US economy and to technological and scientific advances.
Mr. @SecMullinDHS, please direct @USCISJoe to lift the pause on work authorization while they conduct a thorough vetting of the immigration process.
#LiftTheHold
*Doctors in Limbo: The human Cost of USCIS Policy Pause PM-602-0192/94*
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,”
“In the middle of this war, [our family in Iran] is praying for us in the US — not for themselves!!.”
Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab is an Iranian physician-scientist who spent years in the United States as a postgraduate fellow and radiology researcher at Stanford Medicine. Her research work in multimodal imaging and advanced MRI techniques has been cited nearly 400 times. As an accomplished physician-scientist, she secured a highly competitive radiology residency position this year, poised to translate that talent and expertise into direct benefit for medicine and patients in the US. The USCIS itself had already recognized the exceptional value of her work, approving her green card petition on the basis of extraordinary ability and national interest (Einstein Green Card).
Then came the final step: paperwork to receive the green card.
In December, USCIS policy pause PM-602-0192/94 took effect without warning and was applied retroactively to people who had filed many months earlier, with no remedies for reliance issues. Suddenly, not only was her green card frozen, but so too were the work authorization benefits normally available during the process. She was swept into the policy because she was born in Iran, one of 39 affected countries, despite years of lawful presence and meaningful contribution in the United States.
Because residency positions run on fixed timelines, the impact would be devastating to their careers, she and her husband filed suit to challenge the policy. They won a preliminary injunction, with the judge finding they were likely to succeed on the merits and signaling that the indefinite pause policy was likely arbitrary and unlawful. That should have been the end of it.
It was not.
Once the judge ordered pause to be lifted, on March 20, USCIS denied her green card, saying she was not “sufficiently candid and truthful.” Her attorney disputes this and argues the denial is unjustified.
Per CNN reporting : Morrison called the agency’s denial a “manufactured allegation” that is retaliatory in nature, alleging the application was denied because Shokri Varniab is an Iranian
national. The case is ongoing in courts.
On the very same day USCIS denied her application, Dr. Shokri Varniab matched into a six-year diagnostic radiology research track residency, a remarkable achievement in one of the most competitive specialties in medicine. This year, only 16% of immigrant applicants to diagnostic radiology secured a position.
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,” she said.
Now she faces the same uncertainty as so many others: after years of training, research, and legal compliance, she still does not know whether she will be allowed to begin her residency in July. Her attorney has moved to challenge the denial. Case is ongoing in federal courts.
Security reviews can and should be conducted on an individualized, evidence-based basis, rather than through broad measures that may affect entire groups without regard to individual circumstances. The practical effect is that highly trained, law-abiding physicians may be sidelined from patient care at the very moment they are ready to serve, for reasons unrelated to their personal conduct. The result is disruption not only to their lives and careers, but also to patient care and the american communities that depend on them.
Compiled from CNN reporting by @MichalRuprecht and publicly reported interviews with affected physicians, highlighting the human impact of USCIS policy OM-602-0192/94.
https://t.co/4I4udGEwY5
https://t.co/Uww4fLrbf5
![MD_pause's tweet photo. *Doctors in Limbo: The human Cost of USCIS Policy Pause PM-602-0192/94*
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,”
“In the middle of this war, [our family in Iran] is praying for us in the US — not for themselves!!.”
Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab is an Iranian physician-scientist who spent years in the United States as a postgraduate fellow and radiology researcher at Stanford Medicine. Her research work in multimodal imaging and advanced MRI techniques has been cited nearly 400 times. As an accomplished physician-scientist, she secured a highly competitive radiology residency position this year, poised to translate that talent and expertise into direct benefit for medicine and patients in the US. The USCIS itself had already recognized the exceptional value of her work, approving her green card petition on the basis of extraordinary ability and national interest (Einstein Green Card).
Then came the final step: paperwork to receive the green card.
In December, USCIS policy pause PM-602-0192/94 took effect without warning and was applied retroactively to people who had filed many months earlier, with no remedies for reliance issues. Suddenly, not only was her green card frozen, but so too were the work authorization benefits normally available during the process. She was swept into the policy because she was born in Iran, one of 39 affected countries, despite years of lawful presence and meaningful contribution in the United States.
Because residency positions run on fixed timelines, the impact would be devastating to their careers, she and her husband filed suit to challenge the policy. They won a preliminary injunction, with the judge finding they were likely to succeed on the merits and signaling that the indefinite pause policy was likely arbitrary and unlawful. That should have been the end of it.
It was not.
Once the judge ordered pause to be lifted, on March 20, USCIS denied her green card, saying she was not “sufficiently candid and truthful.” Her attorney disputes this and argues the denial is unjustified.
Per CNN reporting : Morrison called the agency’s denial a “manufactured allegation” that is retaliatory in nature, alleging the application was denied because Shokri Varniab is an Iranian
national. The case is ongoing in courts.
On the very same day USCIS denied her application, Dr. Shokri Varniab matched into a six-year diagnostic radiology research track residency, a remarkable achievement in one of the most competitive specialties in medicine. This year, only 16% of immigrant applicants to diagnostic radiology secured a position.
“It turned the best day of my life to the worst day of my life,” she said.
Now she faces the same uncertainty as so many others: after years of training, research, and legal compliance, she still does not know whether she will be allowed to begin her residency in July. Her attorney has moved to challenge the denial. Case is ongoing in federal courts.
Security reviews can and should be conducted on an individualized, evidence-based basis, rather than through broad measures that may affect entire groups without regard to individual circumstances. The practical effect is that highly trained, law-abiding physicians may be sidelined from patient care at the very moment they are ready to serve, for reasons unrelated to their personal conduct. The result is disruption not only to their lives and careers, but also to patient care and the american communities that depend on them.
Compiled from CNN reporting by @MichalRuprecht and publicly reported interviews with affected physicians, highlighting the human impact of USCIS policy OM-602-0192/94.
https://t.co/4I4udGEwY5
https://t.co/Uww4fLrbf5](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFXOFgebkAAVMMp.jpg)
Trump administration policy changes are putting a growing number of immigrant doctors in limbo.
Immigrants from 39 countries are facing indefinite delays in decisions on their applications for visas, work permits and green cards.
These are their stories: https://t.co/sFWM7tbwCg
In the midst of a catastrophic war and escalating repression in Iran, the Trump Administration is halting immigration processing and legal status pathways for Iranian nationals, including students and professionals already in the United States.
Because visa processing and immigration benefit applications are now frozen, many Iranians studying and working here could lose their legal status and be forced to return to a country where they may face serious danger.
I’m working on a series of actions to demand immediate protections for Iranians in the U.S., including safeguards for students and others whose lives would be at risk in Iran.
Trump’s immigration policy is sidelining foreign doctors despite a serious shortage of doctors in the United States. Physicians from 39 countries are being pushed out of U.S. hospitals as Trump's policy blocks their ability to work. Americans suffer. https://t.co/MzXn11L5Xg
@farzyness America has benefited from an influx of very talented Iranians
Great coverage of impacts PM-602-0192/4 on US healthcare by @mirjordan and @nytimes.
https://t.co/NVTmBQqaMG
USCIS PM-602-0194 is quietly upending lives of many Iranian students & professionals by freezing their immigration processing. These talented folks have worked incredibly hard to build lives here. Punishing them with indefinite legal uncertainty is against US national interest
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