What is the significance of american green card?
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The Green Card it the "license" if you will for a citizen of another country to work in the United States. You get it when you go through the proper steps.
Green card is Permanent Resident status for a legal alien.
Someone from another country who would like to stay in the US and eventually become US citizen needs to satisfy a list of requirements and apply to immigration office. Upon approval, the applicant will be issue an ID card. The card used to be green, hence the name Green Card.
A green card holder can change jobs (unlike H1-B visa holder for example, can only work for the company who provided the sponsorship). The person is still a citizen of his/her home country, therefore can't apply for US passport and can't vote.
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What they said it is true. It is a card (actually no green anymore) . You get it through an long and expensive process, even though the card cost used to be a little be over 100 dollars. Unlike other cards, i.e. "Temporary permanent Green Card", the one that you will get when you start the process after marry a USA citizen, the Green card also allows you to go in and out of the USA Without to have to ask for "parole" in order to return, and you can remain outside of USA, up to a period of 1 consecutive year.
Note> I could take more than a year and a half to get a Green Card through marriage. Usually it is one year
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