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A '''Green Card''', which is formally called a Permanent Resident Card, allows its holder "to live and work permanently in the United States. The steps you must take to apply for a Green Card will vary depending on your individual situation."<ref>https://www.uscis.gov/green-card</ref>
A '''Green Card''', which is formally called a Permanent Resident Card, allows its holder "to live and work permanently in the United States. The steps you must take to apply for a Green Card will vary depending on your individual situation."<ref>https://www.uscis.gov/green-card</ref>
== EB green cards ==
==Types of green cards==
There are four basic ways that a person can be issued a green card: family-based, employment-based (also called "EB"), refugee (including those seeking asylum), and "diversity immigrant" (commonly referred to as the "green card lottery").
The most common type of green card, and one which has no limit on the number which can be issued annually, is the Immediate Relative ("IR") card. These are given to spouses, children under the age of 21 (which are not the biological children of a US citizen), and parents of US citizens (a citizen must be at least 21 to sponsor a parent).
=== EB green cards ===
As explained by [[Cato]]:
As explained by [[Cato]]: