I am now a permanent resident.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
and you've lived there how long now without one?
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Congratulations KOM! May our immigration policy stop being so retarded* in the nearer future.
*In that it's ridiculously difficult to gain permanent residency here. Personally I think anyone with a masters or a PHD should be put on the fast track for residency.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
How about may it stop being so difficult? Retarded should not be used as a pejorative. Thx.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: How about may it stop being so difficult? Retarded should not be used as a pejorative. Thx.
No really, I think the office of immigration inappropriately retards the naturalization process.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
parler francais c'est tres passer.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
You know, not everyone here speaks Puerto Rican.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Green? They haven't been green in like 10 years.
Congrats, KoM.
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Green? They haven't been green in like 10 years.
True, but they're still green cards, even though they aren't green. They were even pink once, but they were still green cards.
Congrats!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Depends who you ask. I've definitely asked people who have permanent resident cards if they had a green card and gotten a blank look until I clarified.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dobbie: You know, not everyone here speaks Puerto Rican.
I'm from Quebec, Canada.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Besides, no one speaks Puerto Rican.
Congrats KoM, nice to know we're now legally required to be stuck with you for the duration. Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Depends who you ask. I've definitely asked people who have permanent resident cards if they had a green card and gotten a blank look until I clarified.
I find that interesting, since the USCIS website regarding permanent resident cards is found at http://www.uscis.gov/greencard and they call it a "Green Card" all throughout their web page, indicating that the government itself still regularly uses the term.
Maybe some people just can't think of it as a green card when it isn't green.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Why don't they just make it green? Confusion over.
Posted by adenam (Member # 11902) on :
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Teshi: Why don't they just make it green?
Because the holographic shimmer (a security feature to assure that the card you are being shown is legit) probably wouldn't show up properly on anything other than the current off-white.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
There goes the neighborhood Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
I keep getting ads for a green card on my computer all the time.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Green? They haven't been green in like 10 years.
Congrats, KoM.
The official Heimatsicherheitsamt website refers to them as "permanent resident cards ('green cards')". I think they're pretty well stuck with the name.
Anyway, I am now free to take that postdoc, if only I could figure out the problem with this fit.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
Congrats KOM.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
*Looks at husband's green card*
The actual card doesn't use the term "green card" anywhere - just permanent resident card. The front is an off-white and has that holographic print (rainbow color) across most of it. The holographic print, for anyone interested, says United States of America in the background, and in the foreground (of the holographic print, mind - there's regular print & images above that) shows the Statue of Liberty, the seal of Homeland Security, and a map of the continental US with US printed on it.
The back is mostly some other sort of strip - darkish gray - which is probably readable by some sort of machine. However, it also says Permanent Resident Card, among other things, in a dark green ink.
As I recall, when my husband got his green card stamp in the passport (which you get to tide you over until the real card comes in the mail), the ink the guy used was a dark green too.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:Because the holographic shimmer (a security feature to assure that the card you are being shown is legit) probably wouldn't show up properly on anything other than the current off-white.
Well, it could have hints of green on it. But Jhai seems to say it does.
I forgot to say: Congratulations KoM .
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
The Czech Republic permanent residency takes the form of a standard sized passport, and now functions (I believe) as essentially that among the Shengen States. It will still be a long time before I have one, but I am getting my first full residence visa in another 6 weeks or so- all I have to do now is stand in line at about 4 different government offices, and take a train to Slovakia...
Yay for me.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
There's no such thing as permanent residency in Sri Lanka. According to existing law, I have to get my residency visa renewed every two years. Some classes of people have to have it renewed more frequently, I believe, but two years is the maximum. It's a pain in the butt, what with having to wait for hours and hours and hours for a few signatures that, all told, take a sum total of three minutes to do.
At one point, there was a proposal to change it to a two year visa, followed by a five year visa, followed by automatic permanent residency, but that was vetoed somewhere along the line. It would have been so much more convenient.
KoM, congrats!
Posted by Mama Squirrel (Member # 4155) on :
A co-worker who just received his green card this weekend showed it to me this morning. The back at least had some green printing on it. He received the card about 5 days after receiving notice that his petition had been approved.
[ March 09, 2009, 05:19 PM: Message edited by: Mama Squirrel ]
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