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Financial Aid for College, while bound by the Affidavit of Support.

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sasaqlain   24

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Hi,

Although this question was asked before, I still am left with some confusion and now that its final, I would like your opinion whether I am well within my rights no laws are being violated. I have been granted admission at a university and I applied for State and Federal Financial Aid. Today I found out that I have been granted both state and Federal Financial Aid. Am I eligible to accept Financial aid while an LPR, whereas my wife is sponsoring me?

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Yes, absolutely. You have the same rights to a higher education as a US citizen.

Your wife just has a deal with the US Government that when you turn out to be a complete bum so that she kicks your sorry behind out of the door and you come crawling to Uncle Sam, begging for food stamps, this Uncle will ask your wife to give you a loaf instead.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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JewryandJessica   0

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Hi,

Although this question was asked before, I still am left with some confusion and now that its final, I would like your opinion whether I am well within my rights no laws are being violated. I have been granted admission at a university and I applied for State and Federal Financial Aid. Today I found out that I have been granted both state and Federal Financial Aid. Am I eligible to accept Financial aid while an LPR, whereas my wife is sponsoring me?

Yes, I believe you are. Things that you are not eligible for are things that are means-tested benefits such as welfare, medicaid, Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI)

Food Stamps

Reduced or Free School Lunches

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)...

stuff like that. However, Financial Aid for school is not one of the things that you are not allowed to accept. If you look at the bottom of I-864P, Poverty Guideline form it gives you a brief list of the things consider as means-tested (and thus things you are not eligible for) and the things that are not included.

Hope that helps

Good Luck

Jessica

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sasaqlain   24

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Yes, absolutely. You have the same rights to a higher education as a US citizen.

Your wife just has a deal with the US Government that when you turn out to be a complete bum so that she kicks your sorry behind out of the door and you come crawling to Uncle Sam, begging for food stamps, this Uncle will ask your wife to give you a loaf instead.

Ha Ha...Thank You Just Bob. Not only did your reply amuse me, it cleared all confusions:)

IO am grateful for your detailed reply JewryandJessica. Very helpful. God Bless!

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