{"id":1008777,"date":"2026-05-19T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008777"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:05:08","slug":"green-card-is-not-a-visa-you-cant-hand-it-back-if-you-dont-like-it-warns-immigration-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/green-card-is-not-a-visa-you-cant-hand-it-back-if-you-dont-like-it-warns-immigration-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Card is not a visa, you can&#8217;t hand it back if you don&#8217;t like it, warns Immigration attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Green Card is the most coveted status in the US for foreigners but an immigration attorney warned that before getting a Green Card, people must remember that it is not something that they can throw away later; it comes with its own terms and conditions and one has to fulfil all those. Immigration attorney Adrian Pandev said many of his international clients treat a Green Card as a trial run and like a long-term visa, which will expire. But a Green Card holder has to pay taxes in the US on their worldwide income and if they fail, there are repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Green Card is the most coveted status in the US for foreigners but an immigration attorney warned that before getting a Green Card, people must remember that it is not something that they can throw away later; it comes with its own terms and conditions and one has to fulfil all those. Immigration attorney Adrian Pandev said many of his international clients treat a Green Card as a trial run and like a long-term visa, which will expire. But a Green Card holder has to pay taxes in the US on their worldwide income and if they fail, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008778,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008777\/revisions\/1008778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}