Posts Tagged ‘Permanent Resident Card’

Hello fellow aliens, american residents or whatever brought you to this blog. I am Janina, fiancee of a lucky greencard winner and future alien. For a start why don’t we take a trip back a few years to when we all first heard about this thing called Greencard. For the record: the Greencard was first given away in 1940. I don’t know about you but I guess I haven’t heard about the Greencard for the following 50 years. I don’t remember the actual date I heard the word for the first time, but I remember the first question that popped into my mind: “Is the Greencard actually green?”. It’s no surprise it isn’t, but when thinking about what I want to write about in my first blog entry I realized that till now I don’t know why the so called “United States Permanent Resident Card” is always referred to as the Greencard. For there is no official statement about why the Greencard is called Greencard, I took a short trip through the internet and found one of the lamest explanations ever: “The name Greencard refers to the green lights and free highways waiting for it’s owners when moving to the U.S..” Come on, really? I thought there would be a cool explanation like: “Immigrants are referred to as aliens and the aliens coming from outer space are expected to be green.” Or “People moving to the U.S. are some kind of greenhorns, so let’s call their immigration permit Greencard.” To not to be too disappointed I told myself that apparently even for the Greencard the following lame saying works: “Don’t judge someone by it’s looks!” Neither the Greencard, nor it’s owner. And that would be us, fellow aliens! So we should be lucky that we don’t have to paint ourselves green or play the dumbass when moving abroad. But to be honest may come what may I will never get used to the Greencard. Neither in my pocket, neither in my mouth, nor in this blog. Congratulations to us! And welcome to Alien in America!