How to Use green card in a Sentence

green card

noun

• There are nine of them and a green card holder, perhaps more.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Stenger flew around the world, wooing foreign investors with the promise of a green card.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Tolchin hopes her client can now get a green card, along with a chance to bring family members to the U.S.
  — Hamed Aleazizstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• Her mother is a green card holder and lives with her in Carlsbad.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
• At the same time, my husband got his green card related to his work with the United States.
  — Stella Kalinina, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Powell, 38, now has a green card and lives full time on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife and 4-year-old son.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• Investors may lose their money if the project doesn't work out, which could harm their chances of getting a green card.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Ultimately, a judge allowed the man to keep his green card.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• Roughly 89% of the evacuees are Afghans, while the rest are U.S. citizens or green card holders.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
• The 36-year-old, who holds a U.S. green card, was able to leave Kabul less than a week before the capital collapsed.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2021
• If the business fails or doesn’t meet the job creation requirements, the investor will be denied a green card.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2022
• Having won a green card lottery, Barrett moved to Los Angeles in the ’80s.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The government had urged U.S. citizens and green card holders to leave Afghanistan since March.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2021
• Cubans may apply for a green card after one year, putting them on a path to citizenship.
  — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• To wit: Alma could be forced to return to Mexico and spend a decade there before getting her green card.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• These facilities now will have to look elsewhere because these nurses can't get green cards to work in the U.S.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Sunak gave up the green card in October 2021, according to reports.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
• At one point Wednesday, with the bill heading toward defeat, Jeffries held up a green card and a group of Democrats quickly voted yes on the bill.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 May 2023
• While Pérez has a green card, Carrillo-Carrillo does not.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• Everyone was waiting for his or her green card to arrive.
  — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The state will also continue to support investors’ pursuit of green cards.
  — Lisa Rathke, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• Some people can later adjust their status and obtain a green card.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• Now, if children don’t beat the odds and secure a green card before their 18th birthday, they are transitioned out of the foster care system.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 6 July 2023
• This is all a bloody shambles and the biggest story of the episode is about an event that isn’t going to happen because Brock has no money and also no green card.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
• That’s because the U.S. imposes a cap on how many immigrants from each country can receive a green card each year.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2022
• In the video, Cho talks about his immigrant story and difficulties getting a green card.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• The process of applying for a green card while living in the U.S. is a Kafkaesque one, and, during the time that the application is being processed, you are not allowed to leave the country.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• After the program was signed into law, in 1990, ten thousand green cards were set aside each year for people willing to invest.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• More than six hundred foreign investors lost money, and many never got their green cards, because of the projects’ failures.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• The plan would reduce the massive green card application backlog.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024