1977John Lennon was granted a green card for permanent residence in the United States after years of legal wrangling. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had initiated deportation proceedings based upon Lennon’s 1968 misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession in England, which it claimed made him ineligible for admission to the U.S. During a four-year period, Lennon had been ordered to leave the U.S., formed his own state of Nutopia and asked for political asylum. When President Richard Nixon left office, …