MEDICAID

[Just Inquiring 0]

I am a naturalized citizen & 3 months pregant. Im in the process of filing a I-130 for my dad & I was told that I could apply for medicaid to help with my doctors expenses. I would like to know does anyone have any information on how does me doing so affects my application? Would medicaid hurt my chances of my dad coming to the US?

[gigi_a 0]

As far as I know you have to prove that you have good financial standing to sponsor someone for a family based visa, which is what you are doing for your father. Good financial standing means that you have to have annual income 125% times the natinal povery amount. This is a different number depending on how many dependents you have. This is a web site which will tell you more about those numbers http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml. There is an affidavit of support you would have to sign for your dad and its intended to show that he would not be a "burden" - need public assistense. So in short you might need to find a cosponsor for the application for your father. You can always make an infopass appointment and ask or call a lawyers office they will be able to tell you and a lot of the times they answer questions without charging you anything.

Best of luck!