<p>I am a permenant resident and some colleges require you send a greencard?
Out of the following which ones?
Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Duke, Cornell, CalTech, UC Berk
I think MIT and CalTech require it, any thing else?</p>
<p>bump, please anyone</p>
<p>Send a greencard? I've never heard of that before... </p>
<p>I just applied to Yale and nothing there required me to send anything. Just check a box saying permanent resident...</p>
<p>check the mit website, they require a greencard before they accept anything</p>
<p>I sent a copy of my greencard to all the colleges I'm applying to, just in case.</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>If you are applying for federal financial aid, any college will need to see proof of your permanent resident status before disbursing federal funds to you. They may not need to see your green card until after you have been accepted and decided to enroll though.</p>
<p>They only need a copy of the card to proof your visa status.</p>
<p>Can I send in the copy of the green card with the application, or does it have to be there before the applications? (Specifically, for MIT)</p>
<p>Why would you need to show proof that you have a green card during the application cycle? Wouldn't your ID or social security number be sufficient?</p>
<p>I presume you were referring to Part I of the MIT application (paper form). The green card copy requirement is not there if you apply online.</p>
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Why would you need to show proof that you have a green card during the application cycle? Wouldn't your ID or social security number be sufficient?
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<p>People on F1 (boarding school) or H4 (parents work in USA) could have SSNs.</p>
<p>I presume they can check your PR status from your PRID and/or social security. Kinda surprised that you need to send a copy of your green card as proof during the application phrase. No one asks you for proof if you check the US citizen box. You can't get into the country without the proper status so why bother.</p>
<p>FWIW, MIT doesn't ask for copy of your green card if you apply online.</p>
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You can't get into the country without the proper status so why bother.
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Well, you actually can. Either illegally or on a simple tourist visa. But you have a point there that citizens don't need to provide proof of citizenship (until they want to work...).</p>
<p>you cant go to a school illegally..the school wont allow it, you have to get your visa right.</p>
<p>and im taking the person that asked the question knows little.</p>
<p>to get a greencard in the US takes years, and I mean YEARS of living there full time.
(if you marry a citizen it takes from the day you get married ususally around 5 years to get a greencard).</p>
<p>so you get a student visa, that allows you to get your degree.</p>
<p>but once you get your degree you pretty much get kicked out of the US to back to your home country, unless you can apply for another visa. (which usually dosent work)</p>
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you cant go to a school illegally..the school wont allow it, you have to get your visa right.
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How can the school not allow it if you decide to cheat? How can they tell if you are a bona fide US citizen or PR?</p>
<p>As B@r!um pointed out, there are ways you can attend college here 'illegally' ... for example, if you are already in the country illegally, or if you come here on a tourist visa and stay. Colleges can't check it if you decide to cheat and claim that you are a US citizen.</p>
<p>But this is not what this thread is about. The OP is already a permanent resident and wants to know which colleges require a copy of the green card in the application.</p>
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if you marry a citizen it takes from the day you get married ususally around 5 years to get a greencard
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That's not correct. "The immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, which includes parents, spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21, do not have to wait for an immigrant visa number to become available once the visa petition filed for them is approved by USCIS. An immigrant visa number will become immediately available."</p>
<p>It doesn't take five years if you marry a citizen. My husband got his green card less than a year after we were married.</p>
<p>"I presume you were referring to Part I of the MIT application (paper form). The green card copy requirement is not there if you apply online."</p>
<p>I submitted my app part 1 today, and it certainly asked for the green card!</p>
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it certainly asked for the green card!
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I presume you submitted online. Which page of part 1 did they ask you to submit a copy of your green card? Did you submit a scanned copy or a digital photo?</p>