Future Wife on Food stamps. Would she lose it?

[Caladan 19]

If the OP is in the country, is making $35K per year, and will keep the job, he can use his income on the I-864. If he's not, it won't count and they will need to get a co-sponsor. Whether the USC and her kids will still qualify for aid will depend on any number of factors, but the USC does *not* give up his or her own eligibility for public assistance by sponsoring an immigrant.

Historically speaking, the alternative to a social safety net where people get some money for food is a country with widespread childhood hunger, deaths from starvation, homelessness, and crime, not a utopia where everyone works hard, gets paid, and has no need. There's a reason our grandparents wanted these programs put into place.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

How do you all know that the OP is not here on an H visa and already working?

In which case his income CAN be used on the I864 as long as it is legal and is likely to continue.

Whether or not his US spouse will loose her food stamps is a matter for DHS in her state of residence to decide.

That's what it sure sounds like.

[Peikko 1,575]

I'm wondering what I did wrong when I worked in the UK as my taxes were definitely not insanely high. The health care I received in all the places I lived in (and they were many and varied) was also excellent, no faulty diagnosis and waiting interminably for anything and especially good in terms of health care during pregnancy and childbirth. Perhaps I lived in a 'special' UK and not the regular one...

[Mike B. 231]

I'd much rather pay for someone to buy food for their kids than pay a zillion dollars a minute to send 10,000 high school drop-outs to go torture and kill Iraqis,

My younger brother is not a high school drop out, and he's not killing and torturing anyone. He has a Master's Degree, but had difficulty finding a job, so re-enrolled in the Army so he could support his family. My cousin wasn't a high school drop out, either. He was in the middle of his degree when he was sent over. He wasn't killing or torturing anyone either, but did manage to survive getting shot at every day.

It's bad enough that we have to worry about our soldiers every day without people making nasty comments about them. People should think before they post.

venusfire

So what you are telling me is that faced with economic hardship your brother turned to the US government to make some money so he could help out his family? Congradulations, you just made my point for me. It's entirely natural for people to do that. End of story.

[MrsCat 6]

I'd much rather pay for someone to buy food for their kids than pay a zillion dollars a minute to send 10,000 high school drop-outs to go torture and kill Iraqis,

So what you are telling me is that faced with economic hardship your brother turned to the US government to make some money so he could help out his family? Congradulations, you just made my point for me. It's entirely natural for people to do that. End of story.

I highly doubt that was the point in your original post. Sounds like your point was you'd rather have government money spent on welfare rather than the military. I really don't see how that translated into people using the government to help their families. Just an FYI the two are not analogous situations. In situation #1, the person works for a living and receives a paycheck from the US government. In situation #2, the person is receiving welfare for doing nothing. Not really the same thing.

Edited May 10, 2009 by MrsCat

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

The best and the brightest:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washingt...it_25_year_low/

I admit that I don't know a lot about this as I've never considered living on the dole (i.e. joining the military, and yes, that is living on the dole as much as being a WPA employee in the 30s was), but I think you might be technically correct in that the military asks you either promise that you will at some point finish your high school education or, in the case of violent drug addicts, at least apply for a waiver. In any event, I have absolutely zero desire to fund any of it with even a penny of my hard-earned money that I actually have to go out and make. I don't mind putting a couple of cents a year towards programs like WIC which allow mothers to buy milk for their children in order to prevent kids who have nothing to do with their economic status from starving to death.

In the end, of course, I have no say in the matter other than to vote every of couple of years in elections that are basically predetermined (at lest where I live) from the get-go. Taxes are obligatory. I couldn't stop paying them if I wanted to as they are withheld from me, and even if I did figure out a way to stop paying them, I could be imprisoned. What can I do about it? Well, I could start attacking people who are asking innocent questions on the internet. But I basically just pay my taxes and live and let live. There is no point in getting upset over something I can't change.

Mike B. wouldn't dare put his life on the line to protect his country. WE GET IT. SHEESH.