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Defending Visitor and Student Visa Adjustments After the May 2026 USCIS Discretion Memo
Elina Magaly Santana · Jesse E. Goldfarb
USCIS Policy Memorandum PM-602-0199, effective May 21, 2026, hands adjudicating officers’ broad discretion to deny Form I-485 applications from B-1/B-2 visitors and F-1 students who are otherwise statutorily eligible—turning temporary-intent classification into an affirmative liability. The 90-day preconceived-intent doctrine now compounds the memo's adverse-factor analysis, and the proposed replacement of Duration of Status with fixed…
