The Trump administration announced a policy requiring most applicants for U.S. green cards who hold temporary visas to return to their home countries for processing, with exceptions only for extraordinary circumstances. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services described the change as restoring the original intent of immigration law, while the Department of Homeland Security characterized the prior domestic adjustment process as a loophole. Officials also reported 641,000 arrests and 800,000 removals of illegal immigrants since the start of the current term.