Sample sentences for GREEN CARD

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Definition

a card that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States; has not actually been green since 1977

He needs a green card to get a good job.

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.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
He said I could qualify for a green card on my own artistic merits.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
Deo had graduated from Columbia without permanent residency, without a green card.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Trying to make some sense of where we are to go for the renewal of my green card.
An Na -- A Step from Heaven
But my husband, he couldn't get his green card, so he had to go back.
Alex Flinn -- Beastly
Or present a green card.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
The women handed Oscar and his mother green cards—they belonged to people who looked vaguely like them.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
You cop from somebody with a green card or an illegal and they don't even report it.
Walter Dean Myers -- Monster
Tribes don't hand out green cards or passports.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
Ashima looks at Ashoke, who is double-checking to make sure their passports and green cards are in order.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
He obtained his green card, allowing him to practice medicine in the U.S. and paving his way for a citizenship application.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
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.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
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.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
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.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
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.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
He would never forgive himself if they died while he was waiting for his green card.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
His green card has expired.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
If I had a green card, a job, a goal, happiness would appear out of the blue.
Bharati Mukherjee -- Jasmine

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