Family member is sick but has a Tourist Visit

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2 hours ago, AshMarty said:

 

The wording in very interesting on the emergency Medicaid website. I know working in healthcare things can be very specific to coverage. I have never had a patient that I am aware of use it (but I work in a rehabilitation hospital and not an acute care setting) so I can't say what will or would not be covered. I do however work with international patient's regularly most are sponsored by their embassy and a couple pay out of pocket for their health care here.

 

The website for emergency medicaid states:

       "Unlike regular Medicaid or private insurance, these benefits are intended to provide payment for certain patients experiencing acute symptoms that could negatively impact the life or health of a patient, or the dysfunction of a body part or organ."

 

Depending on what kind of cancer you have it can easily go undiagnosed until you have acute symptoms.

 

Not knowing the exact situation, the type of cancer or what symptoms prompted the initial medical visits would make it difficult to figure out if it would be covered. But all big hospitals have social workers whose main job is to give guidance to patient's and even help fill out paperwork for something like emergency Medicaid. Although April is a far ways away for the expiration of the current visa.

 

http://www.mymedicare.com/medicaid/emergency-medicaid/

From what I have heard so far because I don’t live near them is that she has been here since the end of October. After a week my other aunt found her passed out and bleeding on the bathroom floor and she was rushed to emergency room. She was sent to see a specialist and then an oncologist and she was told she has Stage  4 cancer and my family the situation to the doctor paperwork was given where the option was to let her visa expire and not sure what of Cancer or how aggressive the cancer may be I know that at Stage it can’t be a good prognosis 

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8 minutes ago, Fmert001 said:

From what I have heard so far because I don’t live near them is that she has been here since the end of October. After a week my other aunt found her passed out and bleeding on the bathroom floor and she was rushed to emergency room. She was sent to see a specialist and then an oncologist and she was told she has Stage  4 cancer and my family the situation to the doctor paperwork was given where the option was to let her visa expire and not sure what of Cancer or how aggressive the cancer may be I know that at Stage it can’t be a good prognosis 

I'm so sorry to hear that your family is going through this. I would talk to a social worker at the hospital AND I would try contacting the embassy: http://haiti.org/

If all other options fail our hospital social workers will also give out fundraising advice to patients and families on how to raise money through different events in the community. 

 

 At this point, even in an emergent situation, she doesn't qualify for emergency medicaid because of the visa status

 

I truly hope she receives the help she needs and fast. 

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20 hours ago, Fmert001 said:

Hello VJ family,

I have an aunt that was approved for a tourist visa and she came to the United States and she felt very sick and we took her to the doctor and we found out that she has Stage 4 Cancer and is there anything my family can do about AOS or something where she can stay to get treatment because we are on a time crunch she has leave by April 8, 2018. 

  I know you found out that it right now would help her more to be out of status and illegal in order to get the medical costs paid but I just want to answer your original question which is how she could legally stay here past the April 8th date. She can always apply (but at least 45 days before her approved stay would expire) for an extension of her current B1/B2 visa. Because of her medical condition chances should be pretty good that it would get granted. But even if it wouldn't get approved, the time while the application is pending she would remain in legal status and NOT collect days of overstay. Last time I checked the processing times for extension applications from non-immigrant visas took around 7 months. So she could use this grace period to remain in the US. She'd be out of status but with a pending application she would not be illegal and would not accrue overstay. If you look more into extension of non-immigrant visas you will see that extensions for medical reasons with substantial proof of her medical condition often get granted. It actually seems to have the highest chances of approval from what I had researched years ago (I had a different situation B1 extension not bc of medical reason but it still got approved). 

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I'm sorry about your Aunt's diagnosis. Stage 4 is not good and means the cancer has spread to other organs. I hope your family finds the answers they need to make the best decision.