@POTUS made it clear during his campaign. He even included junior colleges!
I am an Iranian PhD student, graduating from THE BEST public university in the U.S. I am not asking for a green card. I only demand a fair processing of my OPT EAD to not lose my job offer. #USCISpause.
@a_typical_basil به اینترنشنال سنتر دانشگاهت درخواست میدی که برات CPT I-20 صادر کنن. توی درخواستت معمولاً باید یه نامه از ادوایزرت و یه نامه از HR کمپانی هم آپلود کنی. معمولاً ظرف چندروز برات صادر میکنن و با همون میتونی اینترنشیپت رو شروع کنی.
@AriAramesh Dear Dr. Aramesh, would you be so kind to also talk about the devastating effect of #USCISpause on Iranian students, researchers, scientists, and physicians who are in the U.S. LEGALLY but their life, their future and their legal status are at risk? Thank you! #LiftTheHold
🚨 BREAKING: Another federal judge has stayed USCIS Policy Memoranda PM-602-0192 and PM-602-0194, two profoundly unjust and discriminatory measures that, since December 2025, have frozen nearly all work permit renewals, status extensions, green card applications, naturalization cases, and more for people from 39 countries already living in the United States, along with many of their U.S. citizen spouses.
The result has been devastating: lost jobs, expired status, loss of health insurance, financial ruin, detention and deportation risk. Not because they broke any law, but because they were swept up based on national origin alone.
These are physicians, scientists, engineers, professors, and US citizen families who followed every rule, paid every fee, contributed for years and did everything the right way.
Today’s order is a major win for due process, fairness, and the rule of law.
#LiftTheHold #USCIS #Immigration #PhysiciansOnPause #UscisPause #LiftThePause #PM6020192 #PM6020194
Who actually depends on timely visa renewals, EADs, and status extensions just to keep working and feed their family?
❌Not the undocumented.
❌Not the criminal illegal alien ❌Not the low-skilled shadow labor market.
It’s the physician, the scientist, the engineer, the professor, the PhD student — the ones who followed every rule, paid every fee, passed every vetting, and built their lives around doing everything right.
⚠️ The more skilled you are, the more regulated your profession, and the more your life depends on legal compliance, the more exposed you become to harm.
The less your life depends on lawful paperwork, the less immediate impact you feel.
That is the perversity of this policy. It achieves the opposite of its stated goal. In practice, real criminals and genuine security risks may linger longer in the country simply because their applications are set aside, while compliant, high-skilled immigrants are paralyzed, stripped of work, and pushed out of status.
This is not “securing the border.” It is something else entirely.
https://t.co/504QLBulEA
#USCIS #HighSkilledImmigration #LegalImmigration #VisaCrisis #PhysiciansOnPause #PM06020192 #PM06020194
@NewsHour@ElizLanders@David_J_Bier I entered the U.S. in 2022 LEGALLY on F1 visa to do my PhD. I’m graduating next month and have a job offer in hand. Six scientific papers, did an internship at THE BEST pharma industry last Fall, and successfully passed 2 background checks. My FUTURE is paused due to #USCISpause
@IranIntl_En@houmanhemmati Iranian PhD student here. Graduating next month from the rank #2 Pharmacy school in the U.S. Have a job offer from THE BEST Pharmacy school in the U.S. Two successful background check. Yet, my future, job offer, and OPT EAD are all at risk due to the extremely unfair #USCISpause.
کل دیاسپورای ایرانی از ولینگتون تا ونکوور، باید در مورد دانشجوها، ویزایکاریها و کلا کسانی که گرینکارت ندارند و در امریکا زندگی میکنن توییت انگلیسی بزنن. امروز این عزیزان درگیر هستن، روز دیگهای میرسه یک دولت ضد مهاجر در جای دیگری از دنیا ظهور میکنه و کار ایرانیهای اونجا سخت میشه.
بیاید اتحادمون رو که از دیماه بیش از قبل شده، تو سختیهایی مثل این هم نشون بدیم. بچههای امریکا امروز به کمک ما نیاز دارن. قدرت اتحادمون رو دستکم نگیریم.
#LiftTheHold
#USCISpause