Green Card Seekers to Drop ‘Visagate’ Lawsuit

A group of highly skilled immigrants who challenged the Obama administration’s walk-back of a change in the way they can apply for green cards are dropping their lawsuit.

The case, filed in 2015, challenged an incident that came to be known as “Visagate,” where an estimated 1,000 skilled immigrants believed they could start applying for their green cards, only to find out shortly thereafter that they couldn’t. The State Department’s change in its Visa Bulletin—which lets green card seekers know when they’re eligible to apply—affected mostly Indian and Chinese immigrants seeking EB-2 visas.

The new Visa Bulletin format was ...