The changes to the visa bulletin in March 2023, have significantly impacted religious workers. We were given essentially no time to prepare for the impact this would have on our foreign-born religious workers and our organizations. The community and our organizations rely on the services that they provide. In previous years when religious workers applied to adjust their status to obtain a green card, the wait time was about one to two years. Today, a minimum wait time of more than five years will become the new normal for religious workers. The heavy consequence of this change is that religious workers who seek to adjust their status will now have to make a choice to depart the United States for a minimum of one year or hastily find another lawful path to remain until their wait time becomes current.