03-22-2009, 04:45 PM
rabia-k. Dont worry if you dont know anything. I was trying to give my post a little flavor of humor. Green card, just gives you right to live as a resident. Benefits are almost nonexistent for any green card holder except you live below poverty level and have kids under the age of 18. Although some desis here know their way around the system, but for most of us everything is self paid from health insurance to housing to just about anything. Getting benefits from govt can cause some delay in your other immigration benefits like citizenship and stuff in the future. Plus people from US tend to exaggerate their value as a green card holder when they go abroad. Most of the desis i ve seen here are pure scum of Pakistan. You rarely find decent, educated and groomed individuals.