USCIS Just Made Adjustment of Status an "Extraordinary" Discretionary Relief (May 22, 2026): The Immigration Firm Documentation Workflow for the Heightened-Scrutiny Era

On May 22, 2026, USCIS issued a policy memo instructing officers to treat adjustment of status as 'extraordinary' relief and to weigh discretion more heavily against applicants who stayed in the U.S. to adjust. Here's the documentation workflow mid-size immigration firms are building inside CaseQube to survive the new heightened-scrutiny era.