As a result, many legal resident aliens and overseas military families did not receive any payment.
The next step will be to issue new cards to the other 5.5 million resident aliens.
Another portion of the act, dealing with resident aliens, is under legal attack.
As resident aliens they face discrimination in jobs, education and housing.
All but one of those charged is a resident alien from Colombia.
By the law of the land he is a resident alien (23.4).
It covers millions of resident aliens in this country: people with green cards.
Mittens had become a sort of resident alien, whether we wanted it or not.
Every city had a large number of resident aliens.
He added, "We're certainly not going to do anything to permanent resident aliens that hasn't been done before."
