County Courthouses (or the County Office of Jury Commissioner) typically select potential jurors from voter registration lists or DMV records. Since you have not registered to vote (and cannot vote since you are not a US Citizen, and this includes green card holders), it is likely that your name was selected from DMV records. Therefore, as long as a person has driver's license, his name will be listed on DMV records, and his name could come up for jury selection.
In order to be eligible to serve as a juror, a person must be at least 18 years of age or older, and a US citizen. Non-citizens (including green card holders, non-immigrants, and TNTs) would therefore not be eligible to serve as a juror.
Typically, the jury summons has a number of questions about a person's eligibility to serve as a juror. One of the questions is, "Are you a US citizen?" Obviously, you would have to answer that question as "No." Once the Jury Commissioner's office sees that response, they typically would not pursue the matter further.
Some of the questionnaires also ask that if the person is not a US citizen, that the person provide his "alien number." If the person is a non-immigrant or is in illegal status, that person may not have an alien number. So, you should probably write "not applicable" or "none."
Read full article from Green card holders and other non-citizens: what to do when you receive a jury summons - Law Offices of Atty Michael Gurfinkel - Immigration Law, Non Immigrant Visas, Family Based Petitions, Immigratio
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