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Old 3rd December 2007, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by synthia View Post
So it's a really long process, I gather? Are there different kinds of green cards? Are they allowed to work, or were they old enough that there was an assumption that they wouldn't?
A "Green Card" is the same for everybody. They could work or do pretty well anything that a US citizen could do except vote. The main thing economically was that they had to demonstrate that they had sufficient income from pensions etc. to support themselves. They have both passed away.
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