What’s a green card?
The United States permanent resident identification card is known in parlance as a “green card” because of its color. A green card attests to the holder’s status as an alien living and working in the United States. The holder has been given official immigrant benefits like permission to reside and work in the country; those benefits are recognized and protected by the federal government. Each year, the U.S. government grants 50,000 green cards. There are often many more applications than cards given per year. The US has to grant the cards by lottery because it receives so many more applications than it is willing to give out. How does the green card application work? The application process can be divided into two basic categories — family-based and employment-based. In the former, the applicant uses his or her immediate familial connections to make the case for permanent resident status. In the latter, the applicant uses his or her employment situation to argue for permanent resident
