Middletown, NY Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

My recommendation is to ask that attorney as each one has different documents they want to see up front. To read about the two types of green card processing for your type of case, please go to my website.

When a U.S. citizen or permanent resident sponsors an alien for a green card, the petitioner has to file an affidavit of support. If the petitioner does not have enough income, someone else has to file a second affidavit of support. The purpose of this is to make sure that the intended immigrant will not become a burden on the U.S. public funds, including Medicaid, welfare programs, and food stamps. So, with you being on Medicaid, there are 3 possible scenarios after your uncle files an affidavit of support. First, (it does not happen often) Medicaid will discontinue your coverage - because your uncle, not the U.S. government has to pay for your medical care. Second, Medicaid can keep you covered and send bills to your uncle (it very seldom happens, and when it does, it happens years later) Third, most likely scenario is that Medicaid will not receive any information from USCIS about your uncle's affidavit of support. The problem with this is that you are supposed to tell Medicaid to reconsider your eligibility, counting your uncle's income and affidavit of support. If you don't do it, the question will come up at your adjustment of status interview with USCIS, and you can be denied a green card. If your children were born in the U.S., nobody has to do affidavits of support for them, and their Medicaid will not be affected by your uncle's affidavit of support for you. But, if they are not U.S. citizens by birth, the situation with their Medicaid is the same as with yours.