A significant change to the green card application process announced last week could

up in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in America.

The change released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the program,

require non-citizens to apply for a green card from their

host countries. What might this change mean for applicants and their families who are already

in the U.S., studying, working, and living with their families, and what's behind the change?

Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt.

I'm Dana Taylor.

Today is Wednesday, May 27, 26.

Here to help me dig into this change in how will impact immigrants across the country is

Adriel Orozco, Senior Policy Council at American Immigration Council.

Thank you so much for joining me today, Etriol.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

I'm going to start out by getting a little context for this issue.

How big is the Green Car Program?

And who are the people filing these applications?

Can you break that down for me, please?

Yeah.

So every year we have around 1 million individuals who

become green card holders or legal permanent residence in the United States. And generally,

about half of those individuals come from outside of the United States. And the other half are

able to get green cards within the United States through what's called adjustment of status.

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