Applying for father's PR

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gheewalabhaiya

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I still need to do some research. If your parent gets PR can he be eligible for medicare? Age is in early 80s. How does this work?
 
Eligibility for medicare is determined thru Social Security, which, if one has never paid into, or is not married to someone who has paid into it, is unlikely.
 
gheewalabhaiya said:
I still need to do some research. If your parent gets PR can he be eligible for medicare? Age is in early 80s. How does this work?
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No, GC or even american citizenship will not make anyone eligible for medicare. Millions of USCs outthere are not eligible for medicare.
 
prithis said:
Right, but that someone will need to die first before the OP's parent can receive benefits.

See http://www.ssa.gov/ww&os2.htm
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Incorrect. We are not talking about survivor benefits, we are talking about medicare.

The spouse of someone who is eligible for Medicare is also automatically eligible.

http://www.medicare.gov/MedicareEli...n=default&browser=IE|7|WinXP&language=English

"you are eligible for Medicare if you or your spouse worked for at least 10 years in Medicare-covered employment and you are 65 years or older and a citizen or permanent resident of the United States"

Btw, Dead people typically no longer require medicare.:)
 
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nelsona said:
Incorrect. We are not talking about survivor benefits, we are talking about medicare.

The spouse of someone who is eligible for Medicare is also automatically eligible.

http://www.medicare.gov/MedicareEli...n=default&browser=IE|7|WinXP&language=English

"you are eligible for Medicare if you or your spouse worked for at least 10 years in Medicare-covered employment and you are 65 years or older and a citizen or permanent resident of the United States"

Btw, Dead people typically no longer require medicare.:)
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You are right, and I stand corrected. I thought the discussion had turned into SSA benefits.
 
So no option to apply for PR in my case because of no health insurance. Can he be eligible as my work health insurance? But I have not heard about parents getting qualified as insurance beneficiaries, can they be dependents?
 
I just remembered someone in my previous work brought her mother when she was in hear mid 60s. She never worked and still with him. I wonder how he did that?
 
gheewalabhaiya said:
So no option to apply for PR in my case because of no health insurance. Can he be eligible as my work health insurance? But I have not heard about parents getting qualified as insurance beneficiaries, can they be dependents?
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No, parents don't count as dependents for employer paid health insurance anywhere in the US. Moreover for someone 80 years old it is next to impossible to get any kind of medical insurance. You will end up paying in full for any medical care service that he will receive in the US. This is THE major issue in bringing one's parents into US as permanent residents.
 
some employers do allow parents as dependents on one's health insurance ( example - Kaiser Permanante) does not hurt to check.
 
I was wondering if someone has any suggestion that if any health insurance is possible for old parents or not after GC here. Otherwise it may be not worthwhile to apply for them as they may be better off in the parent country where the medical facilities are open and manageable.
 
Unless they work in a job that provides insurance, or you work in the 0.5% of companies that allow adding parents as dependents to your health coverage, for over-65 new immigrants health insurance will either be unavailable or exorbitant (over $2000/month per person), or provide very little benefit (e.g. emergency-only coverage).

So yes, for many (perhaps most) elderly parents, it's better to either have them keep living in the home country, or get some emergency-only coverage combined with a plan to return to the original country (temporarily or permanently) for additional treatment. Instead of spending $2000/month for insurance in the US, send them $1500/month to help them with living in their home country.
 
Someone trying to immigrate to the U.S. has to show that they will not become a "public charge" that is the reason for the I-864 Affidavit of Support. If the sponsor cannot afford to pay for their sponsored immigrants and the intending immigrant is not financially secure enough to take care of their own needs then they are generally out of luck. However, there is no requirement that any immigrant get insurance, so, for healthy people it is not an issue. On the flipside, how does the home country treat people who immigrate to other countries? Will they allow an expartiot to return and get free or cheap medical assistance? It varies by country, some only cut off people who naturalize in another country (like Japan and Germany for example). On that same note the U.S. only extends certain benefits (either initially or beyond a certain amount of time) for immigrants who do naturalize, depending on the individual program involved.

Of course, immigrating in order to get medicare from the U.S. taxpayer is a crappy reason to renounce citizenship in your country of birth in the first place.

Many Soviet immigrants naturalized in the early 1980's, brought their parents over and did not live up to their promises of support. This situation was exposed on 60 Minutes prompting Congress to change the laws. This is the basis of the I-864 as an enforceable contract and the limitations on collecting benefits.
 
honeyhappy,

At this point, all you file is an I-130 for each parent at the Chicago lockbox. Address is on the uscis.gov website, find the forms tab and then the form in question for current address and fees. The I-864 affidavit comes later in the process. You can read all about it on the same website.
 
Regarding the affidavit for birth certificate while applying for father (citizen applying for parent's GC- will the affidavit has to be signed by notary public will work or it has to be from a magistrate. please advise.
 
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