Definition: Green Card is the popular name given to the US Permanent Resident Card. Foreigners who hold such an identification car are legal residents of the US and eligible for employment. The term of the card is 10 years; it is renewable. The card is issued by the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department of Homeland Security) and contains a photo and fingerprint. Once-upon-a-time the card was green, but today it looks something like a driver's license.

Also Known As: Alien Registration Receipt Card, Permanent Resident Card, Form I-551.

Alternate Spellings: GreenCard

Examples: The immigration debate centers in part on the number of Green Cards the US will issue in any given year.

DV 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery.

DV 2011 visa lottery will accept entries for 60 days in 2009.
Applicants are requested to read the DV2011 Instructions completely before applying to the dv2011 program.
It is covered with simple but strict rules.
Those who want to apply must be eligible by country by birth or claim.
Must meet the education or work experience.
Must be more than 18 years of age.
One person can apply only once as primary applicant.
Married person must include spouse and eligible children.

In response to the demand of large number of participants, the Department tripled the number of servers hosting the registration website 2 years back. In addition, the persons submitting entries to the 2011 lottery will receive a notice of receipt which they can make a print or save as a file, that will contain the applicant name, confirmation number and a time/date stamp when information has been properly registered at the web site.
The Department continues to encourage persons who wish to enter the 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery to submit their information early in the 60days registration period.

There is no fee charged for entering the Diversity Visa Lottery. Notification of the selected winners will be informed with further instructions by regular mail only to the address given in the entry.

Paper entries for Diversity Visa Lottery registration are not accepted.

Why live in America with a green card?

The greenest card of them all, the green card gives you a key to the doorway into your own dreams. There's a reason why America is called the land of the free and the home of the brave, and the green card is your way into their home. The truth is, people crave for American freedom. Everyone everywhere is badmouthing United States and their foreign policy all the time, whining about how americans impose their way of living on the rest of civilized world; but if anything, those who do mostly do it out of jealousy, and then probably run for the green card themselves. We can't possibly seek to blame them, as the human nature is inherently flawed and seeks for better life; and inevitably, most of those who want better life, while complaining about United States and Americans, and even hating the American green card policy, in the end watch American movies, live an American lifestyle and end up in America, being American and carrying the American beliefs.