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Under Card Check, if more than 50% of workers at a facility sign a card, the government would have to certify the union, and a private ballot election would be prohibited--even if workers want one. By forcing workers to sign a card in public—instead of vote in private—card check opens the door to intimidation and coercion.
For certain applicants born in oversubscribed countries such as India and China, approval to be chargeable to another country can significantly reduce the waiting time for their adjustment of status or consular processing of their green card application. This process is also known as "alternate chargeability". [1]
Green card marriage, when two people marry in order to gain permanent residence in the US; The Green card system: the European International Motor Insurance Card System, also based on a green card; Green card (IBM/360), the shorthand "bible" for programmers during the late 1960s and 1970s "Green Card", a song by Oh Land from the album Wish Bone
The green ticket roundup (French: rafle du billet vert ), also known as the green card roundup, [a] took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France.The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card (billet vert) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".
At the port of entry, upon endorsement with an I-551 admission stamp, the visa serves as evidence of permanent residence for one year, and the visa holder is processed for a green card. A child with an IR-3 or IH-3 visa automatically becomes a U.S. citizen upon admission and is processed for a certificate of citizenship (N-560).
Over the years, the Act granted green cards to an estimated number of 54,000 Chinese nationals. [1] The green cards were called "blood cards" by the Chinese, as a “pejorative term for the green cards awarded to their countrymen who, by virtue of their presence in the U.S. at the time, were eligible for the Chinese Student Protection Act.” [2]
The Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP) is a policy within United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that aims to prevent selected individuals from obtaining citizenship or immigration benefits.
The FBI Name Check is a background check procedure performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for federal agencies, components within the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the federal government; foreign police and intelligence agencies; and state and local law enforcement agencies within the criminal justice system.