Feds streamline processing of green cards

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......permanent status, or green cards, will be expected...to clear the FBI's name check. If they don't, their...decision to issue green cards demonstrates how...delayed by the FBI name check, with 30,000 held...policy and predicted green cards would be issued ...

Philippines to look into alleged diplomats with green cards

Xinhua News Agency;  October 26, 2004 ;     231 words ......to look into alleged diplomats with green cards MANILA, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine...reports that some Filipino diplomats have green cards. Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romuro...department would ask the diplomats owning green cards to be " discreetly." "If found out ...

Quincy man sold fake green cards

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  August 3, 2007 ;     141 words ......court to four counts of selling phony green cards. During a plea hearing Thursday in U...Gilson Prado, 25, admitted selling seven green cards to a buyer working undercover with the...were under the same identities as the green cards. Federal agents watched and recorded...

U.S. cracks down on green cards that don't expire

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 23, 2007 ;     444 words ...Thousands of permanent residents whose green cards have no expiration dates would have...It's an effort to issue more secure green cards, update the photo and other information...If approved as written, holders of green cards with no expiration date would have 120...

FAKE `GREEN CARDS' TO FADE DOCUMENTS DESIGNED TO HEIGHTEN SECURITY OF...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 5, 1998 ;     388 words ......WASHINGTON -- They call them 30-footers, ``green cards'' so blatantly phony that immigration...to get a whole lot tougher. High-tech green cards will premiere late this month, and they'...with the security features on existing green cards, many of which can be duplicated using...

U.S. agency considers eliminating old green cards

Xinhua News Agency;  December 10, 2007 ;     332 words ......S. agency considers eliminating old green cards LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S...to eliminate hundreds of thousands of green cards issued years ago without expiration...Authorities estimate there are 750,000 such green cards in circulation -- some of which are...

Central China Provides "Green Cards" to Laid-off Workers

Xinhua English Newswire;  December 16, 1997 ;     184 words ......enterprises, are the first to receive "green cards" from the local government. Issuing "green cards" is one concrete measure taken by local...the city's re-employment efforts. The green cards are actually accommodation papers given...

ASIANS WELCOME INS SHIFT IN POLICY 5,000 GREEN CARDS BECOME AVAILABLE

The Boston Globe;  January 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......this country will be eligible to apply for green cards. Though only 5,000 green cards will be handed out nationwide, news of the...decades. For those who do ultimately obtain the green cards, "it's a big deal," said Lowell City Councilor...

New Deadline To Replace Green Cards

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 9, 1994 ;     235 words ...The deadline for replacing green cards has been extended until March 20, according...Naturalization Service. The INS said green cards, immigrant visas authorizing legal permanent...citizenship will not need to replace their green cards. INS Commissioner Doris Meissner said...

Diplomats hold green cards - Pimentel

Filipino Reporter;  November 11, 2004 ;     387 words ......the allegedly questionable holding of green cards by a number of its officials and employees...employees are also holders of American green cards. "This practice should be discontinued...do we have if they hold on to their green cards and, at the same time, being entrusted...

Thousands wait for green cards as bugs worked out of machine

AP Online;  March 25, 1998 ;     227 words ......machine designed to produce fraud-proof green cards is malfunctioning, The New York Times...overcome in the next two to six weeks. Green cards, which confer permanent legal residency...agency has not notified those expecting green cards that there have been technical delays...

Immigration officers busted in `greenbacks for green cards' scam

AP Online;  March 13, 1998 ;     177 words ......officers were charged Thursday with selling green cards to as many as 50 illegal immigrants...investigation discovered the ``greenbacks for green cards'' scheme, said Lewis Schiliro, assistant...who interviewed green card applicants. Green cards allow the bearers to indefinitely ...

Fancier green cards don't halt fake versions

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 15, 1999 ;     342 words ......supposedly fraud-proof permanent-residency "green cards" are already surfacing in the United...Stana said the appearance of ersatz "green cards" in Los Angeles shows the aggressiveness...Social Security cards. The new type of green cards -- complete with holograms, digital...

$370 REPLACEMENT GREEN CARDS PROPOSED.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  August 23, 2007 ;     262 words ......thousands of legal residents whose green cards don't have expiration dates may have...permanent U.S. residents were issued green cards between 1977 and 1989 that lack expiration dates. Green cards are proof of authorization to live...

Even some with green cards feel anxious

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 11, 2006 ;     477 words ...Chicago's immigrants with green cards have legal, permanent residency...came in as refugees and acquired green cards," said Kabba, president of the...is going on," he said. Even with green cards, Irish immigrants "are quite worried...