I-751 August 2018 Filers

[Bre12 36]

On 8/13/2019 at 8:37 AM, noini89 said:

OMG!! New card being produced!! My status just changed to this morning! Soooooo happy!!!

 

My entire timeline is in my signature!! I was in Nebraska entire time. My case was never transferred!! No interview, no ref!

 

Good luck to you all!!

Congratulations 🎉 could you share your LIN number. I’m also a LIN 1890648

[overeducated 0]

I'm here biting my fingernails, PRAYING that I can get some movement with my case before any of these scary new DHS rulings come into effect.

 

Vermont is QUIET! Weird because they have the least amount if August 751 filers (according to the list we created)

 

My EAC case number in the egov.uscis website says "at this time uscis cannot provide you with information for your case."

My EAC case number in the myaccount.uscis website says the same thing since Aug 2018 - "Case was received" . Even though I had fingerprinting done in Oct 2018.

 

Congrats to @Chalandrae tho

 

 

 

[Samh 0]

1 hour ago, overeducated said:

I'm here biting my fingernails, PRAYING that I can get some movement with my case before any of these scary new DHS rulings come into effect.

 

Vermont is QUIET! Weird because they have the least amount if August 751 filers (according to the list we created)

 

My EAC case number in the egov.uscis website says "at this time uscis cannot provide you with information for your case."

My EAC case number in the myaccount.uscis website says the same thing since Aug 2018 - "Case was received" . Even though I had fingerprinting done in Oct 2018.

 

Congrats to @Chalandrae tho

 

 

 

What are the new DHS rulings?

[letvapiana 5]

It pretty much comes down to, who ever used any public assistance program wont be eligible for green card, food stamps, affordable housing and similar stuff..

Makes a lot of sense, however i had no idea about this since i read affordable housing doesnt effect green card way before. Me and my wife are part of MODERATE income housing program,  we pretty much get $3000 apartment for $2000 per month. 
She applied for this and i had no idea that is paid by gov(if it is, i taught apts just get tax cuts which are part of this program) otherwise i wouldn't mess with it. Its not like we are poor, u need to make 70k-100k to qualify for this. And now i find out about these new rules. Its little to say im terrified cause i never had intention to use government money(if i did im still not sure is our program part of it). Hopefully some of u guys have answers.
Also good thing is its says EXEMPT are people that already have green cards. So i think that means none of this affects us, does it ? 
im really hoping it wont affect our citizenship, because for what we are paying we still can get really nice apt. It will be really ###### up life story if this compromises my residency and my whole life.

 

[MoroccanEscape 31]

4 minutes ago, letvapiana said:

It pretty much comes down to, who ever used any public assistance program wont be eligible for green card, food stamps, affordable housing and similar stuff..

Makes a lot of sense, however i had no idea about this since i read affordable housing doesnt effect green card way before. Me and my wife are part of MODERATE income housing program,  we pretty much get $3000 apartment for $2000 per month. 
She applied for this and i had no idea that is paid by gov(if it is, i taught apts just get tax cuts which are part of this program) otherwise i wouldn't mess with it. Its not like we are poor, u need to make 70k-100k to qualify for this. And now i find out about these new rules. Its little to say im terrified cause i never had intention to use government money(if i did im still not sure is our program part of it). Hopefully some of u guys have answers.
Also good thing is its says EXEMPT are people that already have green cards. So i think that means none of this affects us, does it ? 
im really hoping it wont affect our citizenship, because for what we are paying we still can get really nice apt. It will be really ###### up life story if this compromises my residency and my whole life.

 

I had also read that it was going to include FAFSA - and my husband is in school and of course has gotten student loans. But that’s just it, it’s a “loan” - we will have to pay it back. It’s just all so scary and just throws added stress to an already stressful situation. Immigration itself is not for the weak hearted. 

[Ledaron 17]

Is there new changes I’m not aware of?

[letvapiana 5]

1 minute ago, MoroccanEscape said:

I had also read that it was going to include FAFSA - and my husband is in school and of course has gotten student loans. But that’s just it, it’s a “loan” - we will have to pay it back. It’s just all so scary and just throws added stress to an already stressful situation. Immigration itself is not for the weak hearted. 

ok one more thing, i've used fafsa before, i didnt get any money or books or anything, just saved about $1500 by not paying some classes at community college, even tho i paid for the most of them.. 
I mean this is really bad. Unfortunately most of us that are affected by this didnt cause this, and im sure even president doesnt want to deport people like us, but indirectly it affect us, struggling immigrants trying to make it and not depend on government. I taught going to school will be a big plus, but if fafsa will keep me away from citizenship.... omg... 
Lazy Immigrants that never worked or worked very little, used food stamps, ebt and all that stuff, never learned english, caused government to act this way. 

[letvapiana 5]

4 minutes ago, Ledaron said:

Is there new changes I’m not aware of?

Yeah, its hard to tell what is really happening in the news, because liberals keep making it look worse and just stressing us out more, meanwhile republicans are making it look like it effects people that are leeches and only few of them. 
Truth is somewhere inbetween i feel. There are news on uscis website too, but it doesnt say a lot.
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-announces-final-rule-enforcing-long-standing-public-charge-inadmissibility-law

[MoroccanEscape 31]

2 minutes ago, letvapiana said:

ok one more thing, i've used fafsa before, i didnt get any money or books or anything, just saved about $1500 by not paying some classes at community college, even tho i paid for the most of them.. 
I mean this is really bad. Unfortunately most of us that are affected by this didnt cause this, and im sure even president doesnt want to deport people like us, but indirectly it affect us, struggling immigrants trying to make it and not depend on government. I taught going to school will be a big plus, but if fafsa will keep me away from citizenship.... omg... 
Lazy Immigrants that never worked or worked very little, used food stamps, ebt and all that stuff, never learned english, caused government to act this way. 

This is what I had read the other day - I hope it holds true that if you are a current green card holder it won’t affect you. I don’t see how it could possibly be fair - it’s perfectly legal for a LPR to apply for FAFSA - so it should not be held against them. 

 

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/leaked-draft-possible-trump-executive-order-public-benefits-would-spell-chilling-effects-legal

[Feeya 12]

10 minutes ago, MoroccanEscape said:

This is what I had read the other day - I hope it holds true that if you are a current green card holder it won’t affect you. I don’t see how it could possibly be fair - it’s perfectly legal for a LPR to apply for FAFSA - so it should not be held against them. 

 

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/leaked-draft-possible-trump-executive-order-public-benefits-would-spell-chilling-effects-legal

According to my husband, in our state (Louisiana) you are required to apply for FAFSA to get your high school diploma, so I highly doubt they would use this against you. (He went to school here himself and is now a high school teacher.) It sounds terribly off.

[Zkot4ov 31]

10 hours ago, letvapiana said:

It pretty much comes down to, who ever used any public assistance program wont be eligible for green card, food stamps, affordable housing and similar stuff..

 

I was 8 yrs old a couple of decades ago when my father decided to leave us and go back to my country because he had taken an extended leave from his job back home to come here and study. We all came with him as a result. After he left, my mother was struggling because she went from a 2 income household to 1 income and we lost our health insurance through his job. So my mother decided to apply and got CHIP (child health insurance program) for myself and 3 yr old brother. Now according to this rule both myself and my brother arnt eligible for a GC because of something that happened decades ago that I had no control over.

 

Also pretty much like anyone else in the US, unless you have stupid wealthy parents, I applied for FAFSA and got some loans and grants. I though I would be fine because student loans weren't seen as depending on the government and couldn't stop someone from getting a GC. This is really stressing me out now. I have a decent job currently making over $80k myself not including my spouse. This is double the median income for my area. I get this is meant to discourage people from being a drain on resources but at this point I always end up having to send a check each year to pay IRS taxes. I am the opposite of being a "public charge". This is completely unfair and not sure how this will affect my citizenship application. Currently we have no say in all of this, very stressful.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Zkot4ov

[noini89 56]

On 8/13/2019 at 8:37 AM, noini89 said:

OMG!! New card being produced!! My status just changed to this morning! Soooooo happy!!!

 

My entire timeline is in my signature!! I was in Nebraska entire time. My case was never transferred!! No interview, no ref!

 

Good luck to you all!!

My status changed today to Card Was Mailed to You!

Good luck all!

[Honey_B 9]

I can’t find a definite statement that Fafsa is part of the new rule. This website says pell grants and other forms of educational assistance are not. Can’t find anything official 😕 this is scary. 

“The rule does not include Pell Grants and other forms of educational assistance among the types of benefits that immigrants will be penalized for receiving. But higher education groups previously expressed concern that confusion over the question of what benefits would and would not count against them would discourage some immigrant students from applying for Pell or other federal financial aid.”

 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/13/new-public-charge-rule-has-implications-higher-education-and-students

Edited August 16, 2019 by Honey_B

[Honey_B 9]

I found a second statement on the Washington post site, 

“USCIS officials said the policy will not be applied retroactively to those who have used benefits in the past; it will apply only to those who receive taxpayer-funded benefits after the rule takes effect in mid-October....Other types of public benefits will be excluded from consideration, USCIS officials said, including student loans, school-based programs such Head Start, and Medicaid for minors and pregnant women.” 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-administration-aims-to-make-citizenship-more-difficult-for-immigrants-who-rely-on-public-assistance/2019/08/12/fe3f8162-b565-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp

[Zkot4ov 31]

6 hours ago, Honey_B said:

I found a second statement on the Washington post site, 

“USCIS officials said the policy will not be applied retroactively to those who have used benefits in the past; it will apply only to those who receive taxpayer-funded benefits after the rule takes effect in mid-October....Other types of public benefits will be excluded from consideration, USCIS officials said, including student loans, school-based programs such Head Start, and Medicaid for minors and pregnant women.” 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-administration-aims-to-make-citizenship-more-difficult-for-immigrants-who-rely-on-public-assistance/2019/08/12/fe3f8162-b565-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp

I'm finding information from other sources that say the contrary. Think best thing is just to read the ruling itself to determine what is considered a public charge and if it will be applied retroactively. Think that's how I'll spend my weekend, researching this fully.