Waiting on AOS interview and pregnant?!?!?!?

[Mrs Rhoades 0]

Hi, I am 5 months pregnant, I have a $3000 bill to womens care, and one labcorp bill $1000. My husband return from Iraq in feb 2009 and he was discharged with honours from airforce. So they did not cover us with insurance any more. I got pregnant in april, Husband got a job in may so the company insurance will not cover us because we got pregnant in april.

My question is after I get my greencard will it be ok to apply for medicade????? Or will it still look bad on my case?????

[Nich-Nick 3,355]

Means Tested Public Benefits

Federal means tested public benefits are the following:

Food stamps

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Medicaid

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

State Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Can the applicant use government assistance or public benefits?

If the sponsored immigrant uses federal means tested public benefits, the sponsor is responsible for repaying the cost of the benefits.

What assistance programs are not considered means tested public benefit programs?

The following types of assistance are not considered means tested public benefits and do not have to be repaid.

Emergency Medicaid

School lunches

Immunizations and treatment for communicable diseases

Student assistance to attend colleges and institutions of higher learning

Some kinds of foster care or adoption assistance

Job training programs

Head start

Short-term, non-cash emergency relief

Source: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/in...s_Tested_Public

The reason you are required to have a sponsor who files an Affidavit of Support for you is to assure that the sponsor will pay costs you incur rather than the US government (tax payers) having to pay.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Nich-Nick

[payxibka 10,048]

Hi, I am 5 months pregnant, I have a $3000 bill to womens care, and one labcorp bill $1000. My husband return from Iraq in feb 2009 and he was discharged with honours from airforce. So they did not cover us with insurance any more. I got pregnant in april, Husband got a job in may so the company insurance will not cover us because we got pregnant in april.

My question is after I get my greencard will it be ok to apply for medicade????? Or will it still look bad on my case?????

go back to your husbands company.... AFAIK, pregnancy cannot be considered a pre-existing condition.... I think that is a part of the HIPAA legislation a few years ago...

According to the Department of Labor' HIPAA Act of 1996, "... HIPAA prohibits plans from applying a preexisting condition exclusion to pregnancy

Edited September 2, 2009 by payxibka