Can you be called for jury duty while on a Permanent Resident Status?

[yellowlight 0]

Basically that is my question. While on a Permanent Resident Status can you be called for Jury Duty?

[Boiler 43,434]

Yes

[yellowlight 0]

Are you sure? I thought you had to be a Citizen and able to vote?

Edited April 7, 2010 by yellowlight

[antda 13]

Basically that is my question. While on a Permanent Resident Status can you be called for Jury Duty?

Yellowlight-Yes, as a permanent resident, you can receive a notice for jury duty...

As notices like that are randomly sent, really....

However.....PERMANENT RESIDENTS CANNOT SERVE ON A JURY!

And by doing such, it would be illegal, and one would have serious consequences if they served on such...

For example, if you serve on a jury as a permanent resident, you will not be allowed to have citizenship (and yes, they do ask about that on the citizenship process).

ONLY CITIZENS CAN SERVE ON A JURY.

So if a permanent resident ever gets a notice for jury duty...

Simply return the form and say..."cannot serve on the jury, not a citizen..."

And don't lie/not tell the truth about this either!

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Ant

Edited April 7, 2010 by Ant+D+BabyA

[Boiler 43,434]

Are you sure? I thought you had to be a Citizen and able to vote?

To serve, yes.

To be called, no. Which is what you asked.

[upstategal 0]

My husband received the notice to serve on a jury while a permanent resident. He checked the box that he was not a citizen and returned it.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

They can call you, and very often they do, but you're not allowed to follow the call of duty.

If you do, you pretend to be a USC. Bad, bad, bad. Really bad.

[Craneman 2]

My wife applied for a stae ID

Three weeks later she recieved a letter for jury duty.

The form had a line item, Are You a Citizen, Check No and send it back.

Only citizens can serve Jury Duty.

But any, Legal, resident can be random ly selected, but not serve.

[antoneya 9]

When I was an LPR I got so many of those, I just checked Non-USC and send it back. Now that I'm a USC I have to go, that one thing where being a LPR is better then a USC...

You have a chance of getting a Jury Duty letter every time your name pops up in a state-run database system. i.e applying for any kind of License, voter registration, if your going through the process of buying a house, ect...

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Another question; if you are a dual-USC, what will happen if you claim exemption and sent a copy of the OTHER passport as evidence?

[aleful 1,905]

Another question; if you are a dual-USC, what will happen if you claim exemption and sent a copy of the OTHER passport as evidence?

you cannot do that, you are a USC of this country, you have the responsibility to serve your country on jury duty. That is part of the 100 questions you had to study for the test.

[Calikitkat 16]

I am currently a permanent resident in California. And I have just been summoned for jury duty. I did the online questionnaire and I have chosen to be disqualified since I am not a US citizen. They will process my disqualification in 10 days the message said. Just FYI, for Cali residents.

[Ontarkie 13,916]

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