If I get a green card do I lose my EU passport?

Question

I only want to live in the US for a few years not for the rest of my life. What is the situation?

Answer 1

No, you can keep it. Even if you become a naturalised US citizen you can still keep your EU passport - though the yanks will tell you otherwise.

Answer 2

No, having a green card (permanent residence in the USA) won't and can't affect any foreign nationaity (except maybe North Korean) and you still need the foreign passport to travel.

If by chance you lose your foreign nationality (North Korean, say) or your own country refuses to issue you a passport (or your passport isn't worth anything because you bought it in the Khartoum souk, or from an itinerant peddler in Somaliland) then you have to travel on a substitute travel document, typically issued by the US, or the Red Cross, or a refugee agency.

Answer 3

Yanks won't tell you otherwise. EU rules determine whether you keep that passport. US rules determine whether you get/keep a green card or US citizenship.

A green card is just residency. You still travel under your old passport, as I understand it, you just have sort of a permanent visa here, so long as your green card is in effect.

Answer 4

A Green Card allows holders to live and work in the US; it does not convey US citizenship. Even if you have a Green Card, you still retain your country's citizenship/passport.

Answer 5

No. A green card is a visa. It does not change your citizenship.
You will always be a UKite unless you eventually make application for US citizenship and even then, you will most likely have dual citizenship, i.e., two passports.

Answer 6

Of course not. The US wont take your passport away and your EU country will always give you a passport.

Answer 7

a green card is a work permit, not naturalisation. You won't be a US citizen, so you need not give up your passport

Answer 8

you stay as a dual nationality.