Require rejected applicants to leave the country immediately
What the document says“all applicants rejected for any benefit or status adjudication should be required to leave the U.S. immediately.”
The chapter frames this as lasting at least until the agency has cleared its case backlogs. It separately proposes pausing intake of applications in any category where backlogs become excessive, until the caseload is manageable again.
What the document actually says“all applicants rejected for any benefit or status adjudication should be required to leave the U.S. immediately.”
Anyone turned down for a visa or status should have to leave at once.
People apply to stay in the country. Some are turned down. The book says they should leave right away.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates requires an applicant refused a benefit or a status adjustment to leave the country. The nearest, the visa bond rule, lets consular officers require a bond of up to $20,000 from some business and tourist visa applicants to secure their departure, which reaches people who were granted a visa rather than people who were refused one. Executive Order 14351 creates a paid Gold Card route to an immigrant visa. Neither attaches a departure requirement to a denial, and nothing among the candidates pauses intake in backlogged categories. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.