Hello, everybody.
In this video, we'll talk about who is affected by the public charge rule that was recently
announced by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service?
And I've done previous videos about the general summary of the rule.
And we also did a live YouTube video talking about the announcement but I'm going to do
a series of videos breaking down the different categories.
And in this one, people are asking me, who qualifies and who is affected?
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And so, who is affected by this public charge rule?
So, the people who are affected by the public charge rule are the following.
First of all, people who are applying for Adjustment of Status in the United States.
So, whether you're applying for Adjustment of Status based on marriage, or if you’re
filing for a green card for your parents or anything like that, those people are going
to be affected primarily.
Number two, people who are applying for a green card at a US Embassy abroad are also
going to be affected by this rule because consular officers are going to be, now, requiring
them to see some of these financial benefits, some of these financial documents to make
sure that people are actually qualified and they didn't do any violations.
The third class of people are non-immigrants applying for Change of Status in the US.
Again, they’re less affected by this rule, but they also better will be required to show
that they have not taken any public benefits.
And the final class of people or people who are actually coming to the United States at
the port of entry with immigrant visas and non-immigrant visas, and some CBP officers
may be questioning them, and they, maybe, try to determine if they are subject to the
public charge rule, or likely to become a public charge as well.
So who is most likely to be affected by this rule?
Most likely, I feel that people that are going through the Adjustment of Status, applying
for spouses, parents, brothers, and sisters, those are the people most likely to be affected
by this.
Family reunification is going to be severely impacted.
And there's no clear statistics of what is the number of people that are going to be
affected by this but these are thousands and thousands of people that are going through
these applications every single day.
The other class of people are non-immigrants who are going through a Change of Status in
the US.
Again, they're going to be less affected.
They're still going to be affected because they're going to be questioned whether they’ve
been using any of these benefits.
People who are here, non-immigrants like students or tourists, they already have to prove that
they have enough sufficient funds to be able to get those visas in the first place.
So, we don't see them to be a major part of this legislation to be affected, unlike the
people who are applying for green cards based on family reunification, that are really,
really going to be severely affected.
The final class of people are going to be affected are green card holders who were absent
from the US for more than six months and they're now trying to come back.
They may be questioned by CBP, whether they are likely to become a public charge, since
they don't have a job, and they're coming back to reestablish their residency in the
US.
They’re also could be affected by this rule.
Who is not going to be affected by this rule?
So, we have a lot of people going through the asylum process, they are not going to
be affected.
People who are going through the U visa process, certain refugees, and other classes, other
Asians, are not affected by this rule.
They're specifically protected in the legislation.
But again, the majority of applicants who are applying for green cards based on family
reunification, they are going to be affected.
And we don't know the severity of this until a few months, maybe even a year into the process,
we’ll actually see how bad it is for those people.
Also, people that are applying to renew their green cards and they're in the US, they're
not subject to the rule as well.
So all in all, just wanted to kind of give an answer to some of the questions, people
want to know who is subject to the rule.
Specifically, this video addresses those classes of people.
And hopefully, this information was beneficial.
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