Removing a joint sponsor

[max10 0]

Hello,

 

My wife is on a two conditional residency and my brother is a joint sponsor due to my lack of job or income when coming back to the USA.

I am trying to get Medicaid insurance for myself and they want me to remove my joint sponsor so my total income will be less.

Will this affect my wife's status in any way if I remove my brother's joint sponsorship?  We are currently living in the US now.

 

thanks.

[kris&me 572]

1. As the petitioner and financial sponsor, you will not only need to show that your income and assets are high enough to avoid the immigrant becoming a public charge,
2. this is for renewing green card   
3. how do you intend to show the needed 125% poverty guidelines later if you yourself are going on medicaid (that is a low low income )
4. how are you paying for her medical insurance as she can not receive assistance for 5 years
5. looking for trouble in future with immigration

[njblue 51]

18 minutes ago, max10 said:

Hello,

 

My wife is on a two conditional residency and my brother is a joint sponsor due to my lack of job or income when coming back to the USA.

I am trying to get Medicaid insurance for myself and they want me to remove my joint sponsor so my total income will be less.

Will this affect my wife's status in any way if I remove my brother's joint sponsorship?  We are currently living in the US now.

 

thanks.

Join sponsors can’t be removed the only way the contract ends are if your husband become citizens or after 5 years of permanent residence 

[Boiler 46,125]

20 minutes ago, njblue said:

Join sponsors can’t be removed the only way the contract ends are if your husband become citizens or after 5 years of permanent residence 

Well it is the wife

 

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[sweetswinks 400]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

Well it is the wife

 

40 quarters

Dies

Leaves the US

Naturalises

 

I have a question! If the wife is the immigrant and the husband is applying for medicaid, who would the medicaid office consider the joint sponsor as the husbands income?

[max10 0]

Thank you all for the quick responses.  I agreed that removing the joint sponsor and me getting on Medicaid are bad ideas.

So I am assuming that she gets health insurance through tax credit is also a red flag when it comes to renewing her green card status?

 

Thanks again everyone.  Really appreciate your help.

[max10 0]

2 minutes ago, sweetswinks said:

 

I have a question! If the wife is the immigrant and the husband is applying for medicaid, who would the medicaid office consider the joint sponsor as the husbands income?

They told me it considers both incomes, me (the husband) and the joint sponsor (my brother). That's why they want me to remove my joint sponsor so the income won't be so high in order to qualify for Medicaid.

[sweetswinks 400]

2 minutes ago, max10 said:

They told me it considers both incomes, me (the husband) and the joint sponsor (my brother). That's why they want me to remove my joint sponsor so the income won't be so high in order to qualify for Medicaid.

 

Just curious to me because it was my understanding that the joint sponsor is only financially responsible for the immigrant (not the spouse). I'm probably wrong though.
 

[Boiler 46,125]

There are Immigration rules

 

There are Medicaid rules

 

There are a couple of areas where Immigration relates to Medicaid but generally there are seperate issues.

[max10 0]

3 hours ago, kris&me said:

1. As the petitioner and financial sponsor, you will not only need to show that your income and assets are high enough to avoid the immigrant becoming a public charge,
2. this is for renewing green card   
3. how do you intend to show the needed 125% poverty guidelines later if you yourself are going on medicaid (that is a low low income )
4. how are you paying for her medical insurance as she can not receive assistance for 5 years
5. looking for trouble in future with immigration

Would it be okay if she receives a tax credit for health insurance?  I can forgo Medicaid or assisted health insurance.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

6 hours ago, max10 said:

They told me it considers both incomes, me (the husband) and the joint sponsor (my brother). That's why they want me to remove my joint sponsor so the income won't be so high in order to qualify for Medicaid.

 

This makes no sense.  How would they even know about your I-864?  I'm so confused here.

 

You, the USC petitioner can get medicaid without it impacting any immigration.

Your spouse, the LPR, can get obamacare without issue.

 

We've done both in the past and had a joint sponsor.  Lots of people have done this.

 

Sounds like you need to figure what is going on with your county's social services department who is approving medicaid apps.

[nightingalejules 678]

At this moment, your wife totally qualifies for ACA insurance and it can't be used against her that she did for any future immigration benefit. Trump said something about wanting to change that but he hasn't and has probably forgotten about it by now.

[max10 0]

29 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

This makes no sense.  How would they even know about your I-864?  I'm so confused here.

 

You, the USC petitioner can get medicaid without it impacting any immigration.

Your spouse, the LPR, can get obamacare without issue.

 

We've done both in the past and had a joint sponsor.  Lots of people have done this.

 

Sounds like you need to figure what is going on with your county's social services department who is approving medicaid apps.

I don't know how they know, but the county knows I have a joint sponsor for my wife.  They told me the combined income of me and my brother will be used for income eligibility for Medicaid.  I am waiting for a job offer so I might not need the Medicaid.  If I don't get the job then I will talk to them again and will update it here.  We are currently living in Colorado.

[Boiler 46,125]

1 minute ago, max10 said:

I don't know how they know, but the county knows I have a joint sponsor for my wife.  They told me the combined income of me and my brother will be used for income eligibility for Medicaid.  I am waiting for a job offer so I might not need the Medicaid.  If I don't get the job then I will talk to them again and will update it here.  We are currently living in Colorado.

I think something else is going on, just not sure what.

[<3T&M<3 217]

7 hours ago, sweetswinks said:

 

Just curious to me because it was my understanding that the joint sponsor is only financially responsible for the immigrant (not the spouse). I'm probably wrong though.
 

No, I assumed the same thing.

In fact, my good friend and her fiancé were married one year ago. She is on public assistance - they are married - but he is not!

They has a surprise pregnancy the month he immigrated here and has a VERY rough pregnancy. She couldn't work.

 

Anyhow, I don't think the joint sponsorship effects you applying for Medicaid.