If you have a green card then you go and apply for a non-immigrant visa you have blown it. When you apply for a non-immigrant visa you promise that you have no intention of living in the US.
Goodbye green card.
It doesn't matter where you live. If you don't intend to permanently reside in the United States, you don't keep your green card. INS inspectors are very good at tripping people up,. Say the wrong thing, goodbye green card.
If you live in the US it will be harder for INS guy to say you do not intend to permanently reside here. If you arrive on a virgin flight out of London with a green card you have held for a year or so, but cannot give the INS officer details of a US bank account or credit card, goodbye green card.
Green card holders are not US citizens, so are not eligible for the 'rights' that US citizens have. It's open to debate whether learning to fly a plane is now considered a right only conferred on US citizens and foreigners who hold non-immigrant visas.
Last edited by slim_slag; 3rd March 2003 at 05:01.