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actually green .
     The green card is formally known as the Alien Registration Receipt Card, from I-151 or I-551. The first receipt cards were from AR-3 and were printed on white paper.
     
    This receipt proved that a noncitizen of the United States did register, but it didn’t indicate whether the alien was legal or illegal. After World War II, when a new wave of immigration began, the INS started issuing different documents to indicate whether an alien was a visitor, a temporary resident, or a permanent resident.
     
    This method…helped to identify the immigration status of each alien. Thus, the small, green I-151 had immediate value in identifying its holder as a LPR, entitled to live and work indefinitely in the United States. As early as 1947, LPRs protested delays in processing their I-151s, complaining that employers would not hire them until they could prove their permanent resident status.
     
    In 1951, the green cards became even more valuable:
     
    regulations allowed those holding AR-3 cards to have them replaced with a new form I-151 (the green card)…only aliens with legal status could have their AR-3 replaced with an I-151. Aliens who applied for replacement cards but could not prove their legal admission into the United States, and for whom the INS had no record of legal admission, did not qualify for LPR status and might even be subject to prosecution for violation of U.S. immigration laws.
     By 1951, then, the green Alien Registration Receipt Card Form I-151 represented security to its holder. It indicated the right to permanently live and work in the United States and instantly communicated that right to law enforcement officials. As a result of the card’s cumbersome official title, aliens, immigration attorneys, and enforcement officers came to refer to it by its color. The term “green card” designated not only the document itself, but also the official status desired by so many legal nonimmigrants (students, tourists, temporary workers) and undocumented (illegal) aliens. The status became so desirable that counterfeit form I-151s became a serious problem.
     To combat document fraud, the INS issued nineteen different designs of the I-151 between its introduction in the 1940s and its complete revision in 1977. One alteration to the design in 1964 was to change the color of the card to blue. The 1964 edition was a pale blue. After 1965, it was a dark blue. Regardless of color, the I-151 still carried with it the benefits indicated by the term “green card,” and those who wanted, obtained, issued, or inspected I-151s continued to refer to it by that name.
     
    The INS has not given up on foiling counterfeiters. In 1977, it issued a machine-readable receipt card and keeps experimenting with new colors, including such unlikely choices as pink and pink-and-blue. But Berrio is resigned: “Despite these changes in form number, design, and color, the INS document which represents an alien’s right to live and work in the United States will probably always be known as a “green card.”
     
    Submitted by Eileen Joyce of Texarkana, Texas .
     

 
    When Do Kids Turn into Goats?
     
    When they have their bar mitzvah?
    But seriously, folks, though it may have been submitted by a “kid” in Mary Helen Freeman’s Aiken, South Carolina, Millbrook Elementary School class, this Imponderable was sufficient to stump most of the goat authorities we contacted. For example, John Howland, secretary-treasurer of the American Goat Society, was modest enough to admit he wasn’t sure of the answer and was kind enough to write to several other experts. They couldn’t reach a definitive consensus: Some argued for four months; others for six months; and some maintained that kids didn’t turn into goats until they were old and large enough to breed.
    Rowland then consulted the text Raising Milk Goats the Modern Way , by Jerry Belanger:
     
         Mr. Belanger said that kids are ready to