USCIS officials have been instructed to reexamine Green Cards issued to foreign nationals from 19 countries classified as “high risk.”
On June 4, President Trump issued an executive order titled Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats. The order listed 19 countries which the government has classified as “high risk” according to various factors, such as inadequate screening and vetting measures and deficient information-sharing. As a result, the entry of nationals from these countries into the United States was either partially or fully suspended.
After a shooting in Washington, DC fatally injured a National Guard member and left another critically wounded, President Trump directed USCIS officials to begin efforts to review all Green Cards issued to nationals from these “high risk” countries. The suspected shooter, now in custody, is from Afghanistan—one of the countries whose nationals are fully suspended from entry into the US.
In an X post, USCIS director Joseph Edlow stated that he has “directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.” This means that certain Green Card holders may be at risk of losing their permanent resident status due to their country of origin, regardless of their personal circumstances. Green Card holders from the countries below are subject to this new guidance:
We will provide updates as they are released.