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The card would not in itself lead to permanent residence (a green card).
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The waiting list for a permanent resident visa (green card) has been as long as 10 years.
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The undocumented could immediately apply for a special protective status to avoid deportation, but it would take them about eight years to get legal permanent residency (a green card) and another four or five years to become a U.S. citizen.
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It would create two stages toward citizenship first legal residency here, second a green card and permanent status.
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Can U.S. citizens and permanent residents give up their citizenship or Green Card?
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He said he started the process of getting a green card a permanent residency status with sponsorship from Cisco and got one in 2008.
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They get permanent immigration status, known as a green card, if they can document that at least 10 jobs were created after two years.
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The only hurdle: The program requires him to have permanent residency status, also known as a green card.
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In the annual State Department green-card lottery that awards permanent-resident status to prospective immigrants via random drawing, New York's government is very proactive in seeking out new immigrants and becomes home for 12% of lottery winners.
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Advocates are also concerned that the bill requires certain goals on border security to be met before anyone can get a green card qualifying them for legal permanent residence and ultimately citizenship, and some say that the path to citizenship takes too long.
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Marie came to the Hutchinson Center in 2002 as a medical fellow in 2002, worked on an H-1B visa, and was sponsored for her employment-based green card by the center, becoming a permanent resident in 2008.
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