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[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

USCIS spent 24 hours terrifying America’s high-skilled immigrant workforce before quietly backtracking after backlash from tech and business leaders.

Turns out threatening scientists, engineers and AI talent with visa chaos is not exactly a genius economic strategy.

@USCISJoe seems totally unfit for the job.

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

So this means that there will be American children who will be separated from their mom or dad for months or YEARS. This is anti-family.

I’ll do everything I can to stop it.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Insane if true.

So 50% of OpenAI researchers have to leave the US and return to their home countries to apply for a green card?

Don’t drive talent away.

[Mike Quigley @RepMikeQuigley]

The Trump administration is now telling people who entered the country legally to “go home” and apply for green cards there. These are immigrants already legally working in the United States.

It was never about illegal immigration.

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

Are they trying to destroy our innovation economy?

We have employees in the US legally applying for permanent residency.

Now they can't work with us while they wait for an answer?

Immigrant founders building companies here applying for green cards have to leave?

Insanity.

[Nazanin Nour @NazaninNour]

This will unfairly impact many people who are here legally.

Some, like Iranians, could face imprisonment or worse if they are forced to go “wait it out” in Iran.

Incredibly callous move to remove hardworking, educated people who are positively contributing to the U.S.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

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.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

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 - t3.gg @theo]

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.

[Rasty Turek @synopsi]

This is insanely stupid.

I waited 24 months for my green card. I would’ve to go back for 2 years, while paying two rents, paying two sets of taxes and somehow figuring out how to run my company from 6,000 miles away.

This terrible decision will have very bad ramifications.

[Swizec Teller @Swizec]

If I had to go home to convert my O-1 genius visa into a greencard, it would completely derail my career. Not even worth applying at that point.

The process for a greencard is 1 to 2 years. The O-1 lasts 2 to 3 years. Just say you don’t want high skill immigration

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

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.

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

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 least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: Your new stupid Green Card policy will help competitors such as China and Russia. The U.S. will have a significant exodus of top researchers, scientists, and industry leaders in multiple fields, ranging from medicine to technology to advanced manufacturing.

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

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

[Congressman Chuy García @RepChuyGarcia]

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.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

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.

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

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...

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

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.

[🎗The Nerd 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 @NewbieBadASS]

@SecMullinDHS
Mr. Secretary,

We respectfully urge you to resume and complete adjudication of immigration cases that have remained pending within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for extended periods, leaving highly skilled professionals and scholars in prolonged uncertainty.

Such delays risk conflicting with the principles outlined in 8 U.S.C. § 1152, which prohibit discrimination based on nationality or place of birth. These individuals have complied fully with U.S. law and have made meaningful contributions to American science, technology, and the broader economy.

Prolonged inaction undermines confidence in the rule of law and creates a lose–lose outcome; both for those affected and for the United States’ long-standing commitment to fairness, merit, economy and prosperity.