Another Unemployment Question - Please Help

[jelliesbejammin 10]

Hoping someone can help me and I apologize in advance since I am sure this has probably been asked many times in one way or another.

I became a green card holder in February 2020. I was on OPT (F1 visa) all throughout 2019 until my cap gap ran out September 30, 2019. Then I stopped working until I received my green card and returned to work in March 2020.

Now I am faced with having to file unemployment and wondering if I am eligible since I worked during the “base period” that they use to determine eligibility as an F1 student and only became a green card holder in February of this year?

The unemployment application doesn’t allow me to add multiple immigration statuses and worried sick this will somehow come back to haunt me when I file to remove conditions.

Any insight would be appreciated!

[payxibka 10,044]

Just now, jelliesbejammin said:

Hoping someone can help me and I apologize in advance since I am sure this has probably been asked many times in one way or another.

I became a green card holder in February 2020. I was on OPT (F1 visa) all throughout 2019 until my cap gap ran out September 30, 2019. Then I stopped working until I received my green card and returned to work in March 2020.

Now I am faced with having to file unemployment and wondering if I am eligible since I worked during the “base period” that they use to determine eligibility as an F1 student and only became a green card holder in February of this year?

The unemployment application doesn’t allow me to add multiple immigration statuses and worried sick this will somehow come back to haunt me when I file to remove conditions.

Any insight would be appreciated!

No worries.  Unemployment is not a federal means tested benefit.   It is a benefit funded primarily by employers