Citizenship Vocabulary

Official protection given by a government/country to a person from another country; Under this status, people are allowed to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.

• Asylum

• Asylee

• Preference

• Visa

a person who is trying to get protection or has received protection in a foreign country

• Asylum

• Asylee

• Preference

• Visa

A system that divides immigrants into categories and determines how to prioritize which immigrants are given a limited number of visas each year

• Ayslum

• Preference

• Persecuted

• Naturalization

An official document, or a stamp put in your passport, which allows you to enter or leave a particular country

• Public Assistance

• Green Card

• Visa

• Citizen

A document showing that someone who is not a citizen of the United States has permission to live and work there (shows that someone is a lawful permanent resident)

• Public Assistance

• Green Card

• Visa

• Citizen

Government benefits provided to the needy, usually in the form of cash or vouchers [ticket or piece of paper that can be used instead of money to pay for something]

• Public Assistance

• Green Card

• Visa

• Citizen

A non-citizen who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis. As proof of that status, a person is granted a green card.

• Lawful Permanent Resident

• Citizen

• Persecuted

• Asylee

When people are treated cruelly and unfairly, often because of their race or beliefs

• Persecuted

• Radical Political Activity

• Naturalization

• Public Assistance

The status of being legally accepted as belonging to a country

In the U.S., you must either be born here or be naturalized to receive this status.

• Citizen

• Green Card

• Lawful Permanent Resident

• Green Card

When a country/government allows a person who was not born in that country to become a citizen of it

• Public Assistance

• Persecution

• Naturalization

• Green Card