Green Card Applications Face Being Denied Over Trump Admin Rule Change

A new Trump administration rule could allow U.S. officials to deny green card applications months after they are filed and accepted over invalid or missing signatures on immigration forms, However, Morgan Bailey, a partner at Mayer Brown and a former senior official at DHS, told Newsweek that "in some ways, the rule is welcome because it provides clearer regulatory notice about USCIS’s position on signature defects."

"The concern is not clarity itself; the concern is how the agency will use that authority," Bailey said. "If USCIS applies the rule to address genuinely invalid signatures, it may create more consistency. However, if it becomes a basis for denying otherwise approvable cases over technical or curable signature issues, the practical consequences could be significant."