The new policy, issued by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, reclassifies 'Adjustment of Status' as an "extraordinary form of relief", meaning it will only be approved in limited, exceptional cases.

A Trump administration news release Friday morning announcing green-card seekers already inside the U.S. would have to leave the country dropped like a bombshell.

Experts and attorneys warned that forcing people from those countries to return home to apply for a green card would result in them being barred from coming back.