No, you're wrong. You can lose their Green Card.

If you leave the country for more than 6 months, you need to seek prior approval, and you definitely can lose it. I was on Green Card and when I crossed the border, I was questioned by the customs officer as to why I didn't get my citizenship yet because it was 15 years I was on GC and the point of the GC wasn't to be literally permanent. I quickly got my citizenship after that just in case the same thing happened again.

If you get arrested for a major crime, you can lose your GC but you can only lose your citizenship if you lied or committed fraud at the time of your application, or if you committed treason against the government.

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JCTheDenthog an hour ago | parent [-]

>No, you're wrong. You can lose their Green Card.

Didn't know that.

>If you leave the country for more than 6 months, you need to seek prior approval, and you definitely can lose it.

Doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

>If you get arrested for a major crime, you can lose your GC but you can only lose your citizenship if you lied or committed fraud at the time of your application, or if you committed treason against the government.

That sounds eminently reasonable to me.

	▲	alterom 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn't matter that it sounds reasonable to you. The point wasn't that these difference are unreasonable. It was that they are substantial, and absolutely exist, making your "green card is pretty much the same as citizenship" statement false. >Didn't know that. We know. This is why we're telling you these things. Now you know. And there's much more for you to find out.