I heard someone say that if you stay in the United States for a long time, that is, if you stay for five years, you will successfully apply for a green card in the United States. Is this true?

you mean changing from having no legal status to a green card, right? If this is the case, five years is probably not enough. And these years will be very hard and even scary. As for staying for five years, you actually become a citizen with a green card. That is, people who already have legal status want to join American citizenship and become Americans.

I have been in the United States for two years, and I am legal. I suggest that my friends in China should never come to the United States without a very meaningful purpose. In fact, this country is not as good as we think at home. Any country in the world has both good and bad. The friends I know in Canada, Australia and Britain generally think that China is better after going abroad for one year, and want to return to China immediately after graduation. This is the truth. I'm not a five-hair party. Nowadays, more and more people studying abroad want to graduate and return to China. Why do so many people stay here? In fact, this is the thinking of the 198s. Those people can't go back because of their own reasons. For example, after returning to China, the neighbors will say sarcastically, "You see that you are still incompetent, and the United States can't get along!" It's worthless. "Really, people who go abroad are most afraid of being said this sentence. In fact, they are all homesick when they return home. China is not as bad as everyone said. Everyone has never seen the appearance of foreign countries at home. Without reference and comparison, what right do you have to say which is good and which is bad? Can only say that you blindly worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries. If you don't go abroad, you don't know what is good or bad in the capitalist world, and you don't know what is good or bad in our country.

I know a man who came to America illegally. I worked as a black laborer in the United States for 11 years, and only then did the American government grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants in China and issue them green cards. Then slowly pick up his wife and children. It's very hard. Think about it, how sad it is for a person to leave his hometown and not see his wife and children for 11 years. Moreover, people who don't have a part-time job during the day or at night, who don't have identity, have to do whatever they ask you to do, and you have to do it if you are given less money. You have no right to report to the police if you are bullied, and you have no place to see a doctor or claim compensation if you are injured at work. Because you have no legal status, why should the American government and society take taxpayer's money to manage a foreigner without legal status?

the meaningful purpose I mentioned just now refers to traveling, studying abroad or visiting relatives. After all, some people who have been in the United States for a long time have families, businesses and children in the United States, and those who are born and bred. For those people, China is a foreign country, and it is called leaving home. Therefore, they should naturally stay in the United States, and education abroad has demonized or even demonized China. The primary education in the United States is rubbish, and everyone says that China is bad. In fact, they may not even know where China is, let alone visit China in person. In a word, if you want to come to the United States without a meaningful reason, even if you can't speak English well, you will regret it 1% when you come. It's really not that good here. If you do it for your children, it is at least equivalent to completely sacrificing yourself.