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The Donald Trump administration is preparing a sweeping new immigration policy that could sharply restrict green cards and other immigration benefits for people from countries already covered by White House’ travel ban. Draft Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents reviewed by The New York Times outline a proposal that would direct US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to treat “country-specific factors" from the travel ban as significant negative marks when evaluating certain applications.

Although the guidance is still in draft form and has not been finalised, the move would mark one of the most expansive shifts in legal immigration policy in years. Doug Rand, a former senior USCIS official in the Joe Biden administration, described it as a “

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