President Obama has pitched his executive action as a humanitarian effort to help millions of immigrants whose lives are in limbo because they are in the country illegally, but in doing so, he made life a lot harder for those who are trying to immigrate legally.

Obama’s immigration executive action, announced last Thursday, makes nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants eligible for temporary legal status. But every single immigrant seeking temporary legal status will have to apply through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS says it currently receives approximately 6 million immigration applications a year for all types of legal immigration. Thanks to Obama’s executive action, those who apply to cross the nation’s borders legally could find themselves left waiting behind those who cut the line and came here illegally five or more years ago.