{"id":23254,"date":"2020-04-03T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23254"},"modified":"2020-04-03T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:36:35","slug":"uscis-ends-public-charge-rule-for-coronavirus%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23254","title":{"rendered":"USCIS ENDS PUBLIC CHARGE RULE FOR CORONAVIRUS\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On March 13, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a public alert stating that seeking treatment for COVID-19 related health issues would not negatively affect any alien as part of a future public charge determination.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a March 27 alert, the agency further clarified:\u00a0 &#8220;The Public Charge rule does not restrict access to testing, screening, or treatment of communicable diseases, including COVID-19. In addition, the rule does not restrict access to vaccines for children or adults to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The March 27 advisory also stated that there might be an exception with regard to receipt of certain cash and non-cash public benefits.\u00a0 &#8220;The rule requires USCIS to consider the receipt of certain cash and non-cash public benefits, including those that may be used to obtain testing or treatment for COVID-19 in a public charge inadmissibility determination, and for purposes of a public benefit\u00a0 condition applicable to certain nonimmigrants seeking an extension of stay or change of status.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The alert can be read here in its entirety:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001vo6Bb1bLRrmToUfY4LdkbcmRIIRGBRDJqd-H1McdtnSU9XsLJuOnEbQnNJcBLehrtaesb1w_nXGlbUZ9HfzoUmXmytzhMJmBtfkXlJoYR4JiqU5BUu7JIVy7DPYWXfE2yz_iVjEmyB9_ZNJO-Wmxr6pgo6jnak8WKzSnIdJMv76000l6HnTjcg==&amp;c=ufvrboxzxPigroDBy-UF7oOePQli3T2IooDZsArmdbUZpe-JdRINHg==&amp;ch=R7wQmGgtNUBfHMqG4pLeXChu5NI0_bHQ7RodlimQxRRx8J42n_1aJQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f%3D001vo6Bb1bLRrmToUfY4LdkbcmRIIRGBRDJqd-H1McdtnSU9XsLJuOnEbQnNJcBLehrtaesb1w_nXGlbUZ9HfzoUmXmytzhMJmBtfkXlJoYR4JiqU5BUu7JIVy7DPYWXfE2yz_iVjEmyB9_ZNJO-Wmxr6pgo6jnak8WKzSnIdJMv76000l6HnTjcg%3D%3D%26c%3DufvrboxzxPigroDBy-UF7oOePQli3T2IooDZsArmdbUZpe-JdRINHg%3D%3D%26ch%3DR7wQmGgtNUBfHMqG4pLeXChu5NI0_bHQ7RodlimQxRRx8J42n_1aJQ%3D%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586017742853000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEn9KFWwWww95wXYGpYmCuxUDWfbw\">https:\/\/www.uscis.<wbr \/>gov\/greencard\/public-charge<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, US Citizenship and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23255,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions\/23255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}