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New U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) guidelines permit immigrants and their children to use certain non-cash benefits and special purpose cash benefits without affecting their immigration status including:
Medi-Cal
(Unless you use
these services to pay for long-term care i.e.,
long-term nursing home care)
CalFresh
Healthy Families
Emergency Medical Assistance
WIC (Women, Infants and Children)
Job Training Programs
Foster Care and Adoption Assistance
Non-Cash benefits funded under CalWORKs
Emergency Disaster Relief
Testing & Treatment of Communicable
Diseases
One time emergency payments
under CalWORKs
Prenatal Care
County Health Programs
Immunizations
Nutrition Programs
Housing Assistance
Energy Assistance
Educational Assistance
Child Care Services
Transportation Vouchers
Some
of the above programs may provide cash benefits. The purpose of such benefits
is not for income maintenance but rather to avoid the need for on-going
cash assistance for income maintenance; therefore, they are not subject
to public charge consideration.
Use of these benefits will not be considered a Public Charge by USCIS:
USCIS will not deny your legal admission to the U.S. USCIS will notdeny your application for legal permanent residency. USCIS will not ask you to repay public benefits you received.
For More Information Call:
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
888-624-4752 (Spanish and Russian)
Neighborhood Legal Services Health Consumer Center
800-896-3203 (Spanish,
Armenian, Cambodian, Arabic and French)
