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green card
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  • The women handed Oscar and his mother green cards—they belonged to people who looked vaguely like them.†   (source)
  • But my husband, he couldn't get his green card, so he had to go back.†   (source)
  • Deo had graduated from Columbia without permanent residency, without a green card.†   (source)
  • Trying to make some sense of where we are to go for the renewal of my green card.†   (source)
  • He needs a green card to get a good job.
  • If I had a green card, a job, a goal, happiness would appear out of the blue.†   (source)
  • Luis had a green card thanks to his father, but Oscar was in the country illegally.†   (source)
  • But, Farmer added, this would be a bad idea, because Deo didn't have a green card.†   (source)
  • Once we have all the paperwork, we'll mail you Young Ju's new green card."†   (source)
  • Since the Vietnam War, immigrants with green cards had been permitted to enlist.†   (source)
  • There's even a list of establishments that take the particular photo we need for the green card."†   (source)
  • He would never forgive himself if they died while he was waiting for his green card.†   (source)
  • I turn to Apa and say, Apa, can you get my green card out?†   (source)
  • And without a green card, it was all but impossible for him to apply to medical school.†   (source)
  • Two other cadets had green cards and enlisted at the end of junior year.†   (source)
  • Apa, please give me the green card, I say again, a begging note cracking my voice.†   (source)
  • I told him I wanted a green card more than anything else in the world, that a green card was freedom.†   (source)
  • Without a green card, even a forged one (I knew at least four men in our building who had bought themselves resident alien cards for between two and three thousand dollars), I didn't feel safe going outdoors.†   (source)
  • Helen asked about his green card-his official permission to live and work in the U.S. As of now, he could return to America to work.†   (source)
  • But if he waited too long, his green card would expire and he would no longer be allowed to practice medicine in America.†   (source)
  • His green card has expired.†   (source)
  • One time, agents took him to a room and grilled him, trying, he thought, to make him angry, trying, he imagined, to create a pretext for rescinding his green card.†   (source)
  • He could then apply for a green card once he was back in Mexico, but in his budding relationship with Karla he had found yet another reason to stay.†   (source)
  • With difficulty -- for a while it looked as if he might be deported -- James O'Malley had argued a judge into granting Deo refugee status, but he was still waiting for permanent residency, for his green card.†   (source)
  • Do you have a green card, son?†   (source)
  • He slides the green card back to me.†   (source)
  • "If you or your daughter will just read that over, it'll explain all the steps you need to take to renew Young Ju's green card."†   (source)
  • Nancy and Charlie and Sharon came, of course, and Lelia and James, who was still trying to get Deo his green card, and half a dozen others, all part of the Wolfs' wide cast of friends, Deo's support group.†   (source)
  • Luis had a green card.†   (source)
  • At window four, Apa doesn't speak, just hands over my green card to the young black man in the same dark blue wool sweater.†   (source)
  • Eventually, Pedro obtained permanent residency in the United States and was able to get green cards for Maria Garcia and Luis as well.†   (source)
  • Many Carl Hayden students didn't have Social Security numbers or green cards and couldn't get normal jobs even if they did graduate from college.†   (source)
  • I have a green card.†   (source)
  • We here for green card.†   (source)
  • Three of Ramiro's friends had green cards and agreed to coordinate the crossing while Ramiro waited for them in Phoenix.†   (source)
  • Or present a green card.†   (source)
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