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The irony in all of this is incredible. Just a few years ago, the Department of State was literally testing programs to allow certain visa renewals to happen INSIDE the United States so legal immigrants wouldn’t have to fly across the world just to get a stamp in their passport. Everyone understood how pointless, expensive, disruptive, and inefficient the process was. Imagine flying 20 hours to another country… Taking weeks off work… Pulling kids out of school… Risking visa delays… All so someone can place an ink stamp in a passport for a visa category you already LEGALLY hold. Even the government recognized how absurd that system was. Now suddenly USCIS is pushing the philosophy that people should leave America and consular process abroad because Adjustment of Status is supposedly some “EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF GRACE.” One arm of the government was trying to MODERNIZE legal immigration and reduce pointless travel burdens. The other arm is now trying to revive 1950s immigration logic in a world where people wait DECADES for green cards. At some point the system becomes so inefficient it almost turns comedic.