India, May 24 -- Lawmakers and immigration advocates in the United States criticised the Donald Trump-led administration's new policy requiring green card seekers to make applications from their home country.

The Democratic lawmakers vowed to fight against the policy, which they described as "reprehensible", and said they would pursue every avenue to push the reversal of the decision made by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), PTI news agency reported.

Congresswoman Grace Meng, who is also the chairperson of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said the new rule was "reckless", adding that it displayed "stunning disregard for the human cost it will impose on hundreds of thousands of people each year." "We wi...