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PR:Permanent Residency

Updated: Mar 26, 2024

A Permanent Resident Card, commonly known as a Green Card, is a plastic card issued by the country's Citizenship and Immigration Services that includes the individual's biographic information, photo, fingerprints, and expiration date.


It is a person's resident status in a country where they are not citizens but have the right to live continuously. It grants the green card holder the right to stay and work in the country indefinitely.


Although the green card/permanent residency card has a ten-year expiration date and must be renewed, the green card holder's status as a "lawful permanent resident" remains valid unless abandoned or revoked by the country's government.


HOW LONG DOES IT TAKES TO GET A PERMANENT RESIDENT/GREEN CARD?

Green card/Permanent Residency card applications might take anywhere from 7 to 33 months to be processed.

Family Preference Green cards/permanent residency cards can take anywhere from one to ten years to process, depending on the wait time and yearly cap.

Employment-based Green cards/Permanent Residency cards can take up to a year to process for visas with a low demand factor of 4 to 6 years, as opposed to visas with very high demand.

WHEN TO RENEW YOUR PERMANENT RESIDENT/GREEN CARD?

Permanent residents usually have a 10-year expiration date and in such cases, the applicant generally should apply for renewal immediately if their card is already expired or within 6 months before it's set to expire. But don't apply too early as there are chances of your application to be declined if you do so.

Benefits of being a permanent resident

A Permanent Resident enjoys most of the rights of the country’s citizens according to the immigration law and regulations.
 
1. An allowance to live permanently in a country provided you do not commit any actions that would make you removable (deportable) under the immigration law.
2. Can be employed in a country at any legal work of your qualification and choosing.
3. To be protected by all of the laws of the country, your state of residence and local jurisdictions.
4. To vote in local elections where citizenship is not required.

Limitations of being a permanent resident

  1. Permanent residents across different countries usually have the same rights as citizens except for the following:
    1. They may not be able to own certain classes of real estate.
    2. According to some countries, they may not vote.
    3. Employment involving national security is out of reach.
    4. They may not hold public sector employment in most cases.
    5. They may not be able to stand for public offices (except European Union citizens).
    6. They may not be able to get the passport of that country (unless stateless or unable to obtain a passport from their country of nationality, in which case they may be entitled to a certificate of identity instead).
    7. They do not have access to the country's consular in some cases.

List of countries with permanent resident system

(A)

  1. ARGENTINA

  2. AUSTRALIA

  3. AUSTRIA

(B)

  1. BAHRAIN

  2. BELIZE

  3. BELGIUM

  4. BRAZIL

  5. BULGARIA

(C)

  1. CANADA

  2. CHILE

  3. CHINA

  4. COSTA RICA

  5. CROATIA

  6. CYPRUS

  7. CZECH REPUBLIC

(D)

  1. DENMARK

  2. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

(E)

  1. ECUADOR

  2. ESTONIA

(F)

  1. FINLAND

  2. FRANCE

(G)

  1. GERMANY

  2. GHANA

  3. GREECE

  4. GUATEMALA

(H)

  1. HONG KONG

  2. HUNGARY

(I)

  1. INDIA

  2. IRAN

  3. IRELAND

  4. ISRAEL

  5. ITALY

(J)

  1. JAPAN

(K)

  1. SOUTH KOREA

(L)

  1. LATVIA

  2. LITHUANIA

  3. LUXEMBOURG

(M)

  1. MACAU

  2. NORTH MACEDONIA

  3. MALAYSIA

  4. MALTA

  5. MEXICO

(N)

  1. NETHERLANDS

  2. NEW ZEALAND

  3. NICARAGUA

  4. NORWAY

(P)

  1. PANAMA

  2. PERU

  3. PHILIPPINES

  4. POLAND

  5. PORTUGAL

(R)

  1. ROMANIA

  2. RUSSIA

(S)

  1. SINGAPORE

  2. SOUTH AFRICA

  3. SLOVAK REPUBLIC

  4. SLOVENIA

  5. SPAIN

  6. St. KITTS and NEVIS

  7. SWEDEN

  8. SWITZERLAND

(T)

  1. TAIWAN

  2. THAILAND

  3. TRINIDAD and TOBAGO

(U)

  1. UNITED KINGDOM

  2. UNITED STATES

  3. UKRAINE

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