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Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by david-gpu on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:48PM (#46619365)
I have worked alongside with Iranian and Russian tech workers. I hope they all have a green card by now. Other countries will now benefit from the brain drain instead.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by lbrito on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:53PM (#46619451)
Will having a green card or not even matter though?

https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/28/full-list-nationalities-lose-...

Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by stantaylor on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:17PM (#46621225)
My son-in-law is from Brazil, came to the US for grad school, has an Ph.D. in ML and a good job in the US. He got his green card via marriage a couple of years ago and was planning on probably getting citizenship in the next year or two. He is very worried about what all this might mean for that plan.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by sirbutters on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:30PM (#46621501)
In his first term, I anticipated that one day he will wake up and say “any body with a green card, get the F out of the country”. I applied for the citizenship as soon as I was eligible to. I know it’s a matter of time until GC holders are somewhat affected.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by tshaddox on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:58PM (#46623292)
U.S. citizens are already routinely affected by supposed efforts to detain illegal immigrants.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by nothrowaways on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:42PM (#46621726)
There is denaturalization FYI
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by rbanffy on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:29PM (#46622684)
That and the current administration has repeatedly said they’ll do that if citizenship was obtained “fraudulently” without really defining what that would look like.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by ethbr1 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:26PM (#46625525)
At this point, it's fair to assume that Stephen Miller et al. are willing to pull any "get non-white people out of the US" lever they can find, and Trump (naively or otherwise) signs off on it.

The US government now has an explicitly racist immigration policy. (True at many points of US history, but we'd managed to avoid doing it for a bit)