What is the difference between us citizen and green card holder?

Answer 1

A green card means that you have U.S. permanent residence, that being the right to live and work in the U.S. for an unlimited amount of time. A visa is a right to enter the United States; it's really a physical thing. you can come to the U.S., say as a student, a visitor, or on some other temporary status.

Answer 2

A green card holder can also be classified as a legal permanent resident. They can travel freely in and our of the USA, have a SSN, can work freely in the USA but they can't vote. Once you have held a green card for several years (The actual time required depends on how you qualified for the green card) you can apply to be naturalized to become a citizen. Once this happens you have all the right of a person who was born a US citizen, like you can vote. Also once citizenship is obtained it can not be taken away. If you don't keep to certain guidelines and file appropriate forms at the right times you can lose a green card.

Answer 3

Permanent Residence (a "green card") grants the right to live in, leave and reenter, and work in the U.S. It does not grant, for instance, the right to vote in U.S. elections. Permanent Residence may be deemed abandoned if the U.S. government believes that the permanent resident has not maintained sufficient ties to the U.S. to demonstrate intent to keep it. It can also be revoked if, for instance, the permanent resident commits certain crimes.

Citizenship includes all those rights, plus the right to vote and certain other rights. Citizenship cannot be deemed abandoned even if the citizen resides aborad for long periods of time without strong ties to the U.S. It can be taken away, but normally only if the naturalized citizen can be proven to have misrepresented something during the naturalization process (or does something which could also cause removal of citizenship to a U.S.-born citizen, such as fighting with a foreign army against the U.S.)

Answer 4

A US green card is the status of the person who gets the right to live and work in the US and also referred as lawful permanent resident. While US citizenship is a status given to a green card holder after the eligibility criteria are met. Citizenship gives the person right to travel freely, apply for work in the judiciary system, help abroad from US embassy, right to vote.

Answer 5

A green card is a USA permanent resident visa. To become a US citizen, you must be a permanent resident for 10 years (unless you're Rupert Murdoch who managed to get his in a day). Only citizens can vote, hold political office, etc.

Answer 6

A 2 sentence summary is - A visa is usually company specific. A Green Card allows you to work for almost any company.

A H1B visa actually states the name of the sponsoring company on it and US Immigration will always ask if you work for that company.

Through the US Custom and Immigration Service, they are two different types of clearence for an alien to temporarily visit the US. To visit the US as an alien, you must have a valid reason to be here and that reason will dictate whether you can apply for and receive a Visa or Green Card. To visit the US as an alien you must have a sponsor, a US citizen, US school or US company that will be your host during your visit.

Most Visas are good for up to one year and cover many different areas of visitation. Some examples are Student Visas and Temporary Non-Skilled worker Visas and there are limitations on the number issued each year. You must reapply before the Visa expires to renew.

Green Cards are more specific and about 95% of these are for spouses of US citizens. Other examples are Business Green Cards and Green Card Lottery. These last for 10 years and can lead to possible citizenship. Go online to-uscis.gov-and pull up information and forms that can be downloaded/copied. Good luck.

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Answer 7

A green card allows a person to live and work here. A visa allows a person to visit for a set period of time and go home.