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- You cop from somebody with a green card or an illegal and they don't even report it.† (source)
- "A green card," he said, "is an expensive but not an impossible proposition.† (source)
- Ashima looks at Ashoke, who is double-checking to make sure their passports and green cards are in order.† (source)
- Tribes don't hand out green cards or passports.† (source)
- Many female workers optimistically regard sex with their supervisor as a way to gain a secure place in American society, a green card, a husband — or at the very least a transfer to an easier job at the plant.† (source)
- If it is a green card with a gray stripe, you must appear at your branch, with your card, to devise a new secret code.† (source)
- He obtained his green card, allowing him to practice medicine in the U.S. and paving his way for a citizenship application.† (source)
- Sam dug one from her pocket and handed it across: gold cursive on green card stock, just like the one Loki had tucked into Uncle Randolph's pocket.† (source)
- When she had registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon filing her green card application, Luma had been fingerprinted; her fingers were placed on an ink pad and carefully rolled over the card beneath.† (source)
- II 1970-1960 A Regular Revolution Carla, Sandi, Yoyo, Fifi For three-going-on-four years Mami and Papi were on green cards, and the four of us shifted from foot to foot, waiting to go home.† (source)
- He said I could qualify for a green card on my own artistic merits.† (source)
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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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