Public Charge Immigrant survivors may be reticent to seek healthcare subsidies that they and their children are eligible for because they are concerned that seeking subsidized healthcare will prevent them from becoming lawful permanent residents under public charge laws. The public charge ground of inadmissibility refers to the barring of a foreign national from obtaining […]

Immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence who have not filed for immigration relief or who will not be filing for immigration relief can access healthcare from federally funded healthcare programs that are open to all persons without regard to the individual’s immigration status. Abused immigrants, as well as other immigrant children and adults, can […]

This section will discuss which immigrant survivors of domestic or sexual violence or human trafficking qualify under federal or state law for healthcare subsidies, if they are low income. The majority of immigrant survivors will not qualify for federal funded Medicaid. As a result, since many advocates, attorneys and state and federal benefits providers assume […]

An immigrant’s eligibility for the healthcare exchanges and its related subsidies depends upon the immigrant’s status at the time of applying for the benefit. Immigrant access to the healthcare exchanges is governed by whether an immigrant is on the list of immigrants that are “lawfully present” in the United States. It is important to note […]

There are a number of ways to fill out an application to get health insurance from the healthcare exchanges, including: Going to www.healthcare.gov; Calling 1-800-318-2596 or 1-855-889-4325; or Finding a trained healthcare expert to provide personal help with the process at https://localhelp.healthcare.gov. © 2015 National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project. The contents of this publication may […]

The ACA implemented numerous wide-sweeping changes to the U.S. healthcare system, including the expansion of income-related eligibility for Medicaid, allowing young adults to stay covered on their parents’ health insurance plans until the age of 26, proscribing certain minimum requirements for nearly all healthcare plans, and prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage based on “pre-existing […]