{"id":16883,"date":"2009-09-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/02\/the-wheels-of-government-bureaucracy-turn-slowly-green-cards\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:00:00","slug":"the-wheels-of-government-bureaucracy-turn-slowly-green-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090902-00\/?p=16883","title":{"rendered":"The wheels of government bureaucracy turn slowly: Green cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> When foreign nationals come to work at Microsoft, the legal department gets to work with the paperwork of applying for permanent residency (colloquially known as a <i>green card<\/i> even though the cards haven&#8217;t been green for a long time). Obtaining permanent resident status in the United States takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I remember the irony when one of my colleagues finally received his green card&#8230; on his last day working at Microsoft. <\/p>\n<p> Still, at least it arrived in time, if only barely. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/\"> ::&nbsp;Wendy&nbsp;::<\/a> received her green card <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/2008\/01\/22\/us-resident-not\/\"> two months after she left the country<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When foreign nationals come to work at Microsoft, the legal department gets to work with the paperwork of applying for permanent residency (colloquially known as a green card even though the cards haven&#8217;t been green for a long time). Obtaining permanent resident status in the United States takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-16883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When foreign nationals come to work at Microsoft, the legal department gets to work with the paperwork of applying for permanent residency (colloquially known as a green card even though the cards haven&#8217;t been green for a long time). Obtaining permanent resident status in the United States takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}