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The affidavit cannot be withdrawn once the green card has been issued. It is now a binding contract.

Your friend can be held liable for her medical expenses. Receiving temporary medicaid, however, does not make the immigrant a "public charge", so she can't lose her permanent resident status for it.

If she stays outside the US for too long then CBP will determine she's abandoned her permanent resident status, and they'll revoke her green card. If your friend has evidence that she left the US without a specific intent to return then she can send her evidence to USCIS and ICE. With a little luck, they'll yank her green card the next time she comes to the US, and that will put an end to the affidavit of support.

Thanks for the response. What makes someone a "public charge"? And becoming a "public charge" constitutes ground for revoking a Greencard, correct?

Hi,

I have a friend who signed the Financial Responsibility Affidavit (I-864) for her niece. The girl received her Greencard and returned to her home country immediately. Basically,she never really lived or worked in the US.

My friend had a falling out with the girl and her mother, but recently learned this girl has come to the US twice to deliver her children here, using Medicaid.

Can my friend be held responsible for her neice's expenses? The girl does not live in the US but has somehow found to cheat the system.

Can she revoke her responsibility based on the fact the girl does not live her (altouhg she apparently still has her Greencard?)