{"id":1644,"date":"2018-09-26T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/new-draft-regulation-would-restrict-green-card-availability\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:27:06","slug":"new-draft-regulation-would-restrict-green-card-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law888.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"New Draft Regulation Would Restrict Green Card Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are many qualifications and restrictions for immigrants applying for a green card.\u00a0 One such restriction is that potential green card recipients must not be considered a ‘public charge’.\u00a0 To be considered a public charge, the immigrant would have to be accepting cash welfare under programs like the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Social Security Insurance<\/a> (SSI) programs.\u00a0 The Trump administration is seeking to expand the definition of ‘public charge’ in order to restrict immigration.<\/p>\n

The proposed regulation issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeks to give United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) more leeway to reject more green card applications.\u00a0 In addition to cash welfare, applications could be denied if an immigrant has used benefits from Medicaid, the Medicare prescription drug program, food stamps, or the Section 8 housing program.\u00a0 The change does not appear to be retroactive, and only benefits used after the new regulation has taken affect will be considered.<\/p>\n

Making the entire process more complicated is that using the aforementioned programs does not automatically label an immigrant a public charge.\u00a0 There appears to be a formula that takes into consideration what kind of benefits are used and how long those benefits were used.\u00a0 The formula also takes into consideration the green card applicant’s household income, personal health, family size, age, and whether or not he or she has health insurance.\u00a0 Applicants may also be able to pay the government to overlook them as public charges.\u00a0 The new regulations have been whispered about<\/a> for a while and have caused many immigrants to stop using public assistance programs.<\/p>\n

Immigration law is already complicated.\u00a0 Changing the standards by which immigrants apply for a green card<\/a> will only make things more complicated.\u00a0 The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth offers expert legal advice to immigrants who wish to live and work legally in the United States.\u00a0 We offer free initial consultations at 888-517-9888<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration is seeking to expand the definition of ‘public charge’ in order to restrict immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}