Question about public charge - please help!

[Anastasia&Jacob 8]

Hello everybody! 
I didn’t know which topic exactly to choose to ask this question, hopefully that’s the right one. 

 

I’m pregnant now and my husband and I were offered to use a health plan program from the state which I guess covers most of the doctors visits during pregnancy. A couple months later we found out that this help is going to make me a public charge  (uscis says on their website that any medical help etc does that...) and so we deactivated this health plan from the state. Now my husband activated his military insurance and we are using that. 
But the sad and confusing part is that the hospital won’t let us pay for all the visits (which we had before we activated our insurance) by ourselves. We just wanted to show that we don’t need this free help from the state to avoid any difficulties with the AOS... But the hospital just doesn’t  let us do that cause they were using the health plan as the insurance during several months... 

 

We are really worried that this is a public charge thing and can make the process of getting green card very complicated:( 

Does anyone know or have any advice what to do next?  

We applied for AOS and EAD in the end of December, got my EAD in the beginning of June. And there is still no information on the AOS. 

[TBoneTX 46,295]

Thread is moved from General Immigration Discussion to the "AOS from K Visas" Process forum, for a wider readership.

[Ayrton 965]

3 hours ago, Anastasia&Jacob said:

Hello everybody! 
I didn’t know which topic exactly to choose to ask this question, hopefully that’s the right one. 

 

I’m pregnant now and my husband and I were offered to use a health plan program from the state which I guess covers most of the doctors visits during pregnancy. A couple months later we found out that this help is going to make me a public charge  (uscis says on their website that any medical help etc does that...) and so we deactivated this health plan from the state. Now my husband activated his military insurance and we are using that. 
But the sad and confusing part is that the hospital won’t let us pay for all the visits (which we had before we activated our insurance) by ourselves. We just wanted to show that we don’t need this free help from the state to avoid any difficulties with the AOS... But the hospital just doesn’t  let us do that cause they were using the health plan as the insurance during several months... 

 

We are really worried that this is a public charge thing and can make the process of getting green card very complicated:( 

Does anyone know or have any advice what to do next?  

We applied for AOS and EAD in the end of December, got my EAD in the beginning of June. And there is still no information on the AOS. 

You can use medicaid if you're pregnant. This won't be considered public charge.