Health Insurance during AOS

[zic10 0]

My wife and I got married back on Dec 22 2016. She has been here with me in the United States and we have applied for the green card, employment authorization, and parolee documents. I was wanting to add my wife my existing health insurance that my employer provides, however I had to do this within 30 days of getting married. I did not do this within the 30 day time window and are not eligible for benefits through my current employer until open enrollment opens up again in Oct 2017. I then looked into healthcare.gov to discover that you have to have been married within 60 days to be eligible for any benefits enrollment. I wanted to know if anyone has any advice or information on options to get my wife covered. I understand that general open enrollment ended on Jan 31 2017 (according to Google) and just need to know if I'll most likely have to wait until the next open enrollment period or get a new job that provides it or if there may be another option I haven't considered. 

[charmander 692]

36 minutes ago, zic10 said:

My wife and I got married back on Dec 22 2016. She has been here with me in the United States and we have applied for the green card, employment authorization, and parolee documents. I was wanting to add my wife my existing health insurance that my employer provides, however I had to do this within 30 days of getting married. I did not do this within the 30 day time window and are not eligible for benefits through my current employer until open enrollment opens up again in Oct 2017. I then looked into healthcare.gov to discover that you have to have been married within 60 days to be eligible for any benefits enrollment. I wanted to know if anyone has any advice or information on options to get my wife covered. I understand that general open enrollment ended on Jan 31 2017 (according to Google) and just need to know if I'll most likely have to wait until the next open enrollment period or get a new job that provides it or if there may be another option I haven't considered. 

I think it is officially 60 days after a qualified event. https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage-outside-open-enrollment/special-enrollment-period/

Looks like it won't help you now. When was the first time you contacted your employer about it? If it was within that 60 day period, it's their fault not letting you add your spouse.

Maybe you play the ignorant about this and say you thought she first needed to have her green card/social sec number/ etc to be able to get in to your health insurance. 

 

Worst case scenario, try to stay healthy. I was out of coverage for a 7 month period once. Not fun at all, stressful, but I had no other option. Good luck!