Nor is it just Americans who are affected: foreigners whose card data is stolen often find the thieves have little trouble waltzing into stores and making purchases with ersatz cards.
For foreigners (U.S. Citizens/Green Card holders: feel free to comment if you know of someone that is a foreigner).
Ski for Green Cards Developers with big plans for Jay Peak, a ski resort in Vermont, and the nearby town Newport have got millions in financing under a program that gives foreigners a green card in exchange for a $500,000 investment.
Under the program, known as EB-5, a foreigner receives a green card for investing $500,000 in a business in a rural or high-unemployment area.
Amina comes across as a calculating fortune seeker, willing to marry a man with whom she enjoys no emotional or sexual connection simply to get to the United States, while George comes across as a fussbudget loser, whose chief appeal rests in his ability to help a poor foreigner get a green card, and eventually, an American passport.
Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations has proposed setting aside the requirement that foreigners hold a green card, and recruiting illegal immigrants as well as foreign citizens overseas.
It's now become something of a Soviet theme park and a major drawing card for foreigners and Lithuanians alike.
Without a green card, brainy foreigners who quit their day jobs to start new companies risk deportation.Immigrant entrepreneurs seldom make their own case well in public.
Mazeda A. Uddin, a community activist from Queens, who often plays matchmaker, said she stopped organizing proxy weddings after witnessing people being married and left brokenhearted by unscrupulous foreigners seeking a green card, not a life partner.
