a u.s citizen

can vote

a u.s citizen can serve on a jury

a u.s citizen can freely

live virtually anywhere in the world

a green card holder on the other hand

cannot vote a green card holder in order

to protect their residency to maintain

their residency must actually be living

in the united states

if a green card holder departs the

united states and doesn’t come back for

a certain period of time

the us government can revoke that green

card can revoke that residency

so

once you’ve

attained permanent residence once you’ve

obtained your green card

it’s probably a good idea to explore

becoming a u.s citizen so that you never

have to worry about losing your status

and another benefit of

becoming a citizen as opposed to

remaining a permanent resident or a

green card holder

is that if you do something

if you commit a crime become arrested if

you do anything

that makes you deportable from the

united states

you could lose your status and be

deported from the united states and

that’s not something that can be done to

a u.s citizen

even if you were not born here but you

became a u.s citizen through

naturalization

you cannot be deported as a u.s citizen