Green Card For Parent Please Help!!

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manjula1998

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We are US citizens and my husband wants to apply for a Green Card for my father in law.
1. Can we apply for a Green Card for him while my father in law is visiting us on a tourist visa or will that be a conflict?
If we apply as soon as he gets here, can he stay on past 6 months?

2. If my father in law does not come here on a tourist visa can we apply for HIS Green Card in India?

3. How long does it take to get a Green Card for a parent? Our Service Center would be Nebraska.

4. An unrelated question, if anyone on the forum can help with this.
If my father in law gets a Green Card will he be eligible for Medicare?
 
manjula1998 said:
If my father in law does not come here on a tourist visa can we apply for HIS Green Card in India?
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This would be best. Your husband needs to file an I-130 on his behalf. It should be a few months from filing to his consular interview.

If my father in law gets a Green Card will he be eligible for Medicare?
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Of course not - until he works in the US for 10 years.
 
manjula1998 said:
We are US citizens and my husband wants to apply for a Green Card for my father in law.
1. Can we apply for a Green Card for him while my father in law is visiting us on a tourist visa or will that be a conflict?
If we apply as soon as he gets here, can he stay on past 6 months?
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Yes to all.
manjula1998 said:
2. If my father in law does not come here on a tourist visa can we apply for HIS Green Card in India?
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Yes
manjula1998 said:
3. How long does it take to get a Green Card for a parent? Our Service Center would be Nebraska.
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Don't know.
manjula1998 said:
4. An unrelated question, if anyone on the forum can help with this.
If my father in law gets a Green Card will he be eligible for Medicare?
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No. If you/he lives in California, they have some kind of help for GC holder in this area. But not sure what. You may want to search on Google.
 
I thought I read somewhere that past the age of 65 Medicare is available to all. So I believe the preceding replies to you question on Medicare needed to be qualified. I am also interested what you find out. Please post when you confirm.

Mahesh
 
maheshgajanan said:
I thought I read somewhere that past the age of 65 Medicare is available to all.
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You need to contribute for 10 quarters. You can purchase Medicare coverage, but that's a different matter.

This is why I'm puzzled why so many immigrants who become citizens want to sponsor their elderly parents for permanent residency - unless the parents are quite young or quite rich, with no health insurance it doesn't make sense.
 
I thought Medicare is not available for LPR but it is available for ALL Citizen even if they have not contrubuted in it. I remeber my Grandmother used to receive it. Now I am not sure what kind of paperworks my uncle did.
To get the Social Security, you have to be Contributed for 10 years but not for Medicare.
 
amishah said:
I thought Medicare is not available for LPR but it is available for ALL Citizen even if they have not contrubuted in it.
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It is available for Citizens and Permanent Residents. However, you have to pay into it. Looking at my father's example, he'd be paying around $400/month for Part A and B coverage.
 
TheRealCanadian said:
It is available for Citizens and Permanent Residents. However, you have to pay into it. Looking at my father's example, he'd be paying around $400/month for Part A and B coverage.
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You might be right. I don't have any experience on it neither I have researched on it.
Thanks,
 
IN GENERAL you have to be eligible to receive SS benefits in order to be eligible to Medicare. But I am not familar with a variety of scenarios. You might get a straight answer to your own specific question by using Medicare Eligibility Tool in Medicare.gov page (I once did some research in the past to help out my elderly neighbor..)
 
Medicare eligibility

To be eligible for medicare, you should have stayed in US for 5 years. After 5 yrs of continous stay, your parents can get BUYIN medicare. There will be premium since they would not have contrinbuted to the system. If they can citizenship after 5 yrs, then they would be eiligible for medicaid ( the insurance for poor and needy) and medicaid would pay for the buyin Medicare premium.

Hope it helps
 
The rule for 65+ can get Medicare aid expired in 1989. That was a loooong time from now. There is no such thing as free medical treatment in the US anymore. Take careful steps and do complete research before you call your parents here. I know it sounds too blunt but trust me...medical expenses are not cheap in this country. If your parents are already over 55, good luck getting private insurance for them. There are some govt. agencies which may help you out but you will have to disown your parents...thats the only way.
 
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