green card
nounDefinition of green card
: an identity card attesting the permanent resident status of an alien in the U.S.
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Other Words from green card
green-carder
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Examples of green card in a Sentence
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His comment comes a day after the administration announced a new rule that will reject green cards for immigrants who might rely on government assistance. — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, "Trump's top immigration official reworks the words on the Statue of Liberty," 13 Aug. 2019 Many undocumented workers at other Trump properties, including resorts in Philadelphia, Westchester County, N.Y., and Jupiter, Fla., have come forward since then and said they were also employed using phony Social Security numbers and green cards. — New York Times, "‘I Don’t Run It’: Trump Responds to Reports of Undocumented Workers at His Properties," 5 July 2019 Holtec has applied for temporary H-1B visas and green cards for some of the most skilled jobs. — Susan Schmidt, ProPublica, "Meet the Congressman Defending Questionable Tax Breaks for a Company Connected to His Rich Brother," 2 July 2019 And throughout the series, the vapid, bratty U.S. ambassador (Greta Titelman) tosses off one-liners about green cards and the border crisis, the show’s way of casually critiquing immigration law. — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, "The Unique, Comic Alchemy of Los Espookys," 21 June 2019 The workers told agents that Saul Garcia and Saul Garcia Jr. had provided them with the false green cards and Social Security cards, according to court documents. — Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "What we know so far about the human trafficking scheme that allegedly forced dozens of Mexican men to work on Wisconsin farms," 19 June 2019 But agents have also questioned citizens, green card holders and DACA recipients — in some cases detaining legal immigrants and telling them their documentation was fake. — NBC News, "Border Patrol searches have increased on Greyhound, other buses far from border," 5 June 2019 Her mother, who was born in Mexico, has her green card. — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, "Even immigrants in US legally deal with fear and ‘chaos’ as ICE raids loom," 11 July 2019 Those spouses, the vast majority of them Indian woman according to University of Tennessee researchers, hold the H-4 visa, which has allowed employment since 2015 for people whose H-1B spouses are on track for green cards. — Ethan Baron, The Denver Post, "H-1B visa: Amid OPT work permit delays, foreign students reportedly losing internship opportunities," 18 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'green card.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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