Unemployment benefit is a company paid insurance?!
All,
Thanks for your responses. Based on my understanding, my company pays unemployment insurance (in terms of state tax?) for every employee. Does this mean every employee should get this benefit in case of necessary? I am in IL, I know some H1Bs from my company got this benefit. But, when I asked my lawyer\'s firm, they said this benefit should be to citizens and PRs only. They also said, if I insist I can ask them whether I am qualify and make sure the benefit is not related to public aid/warefare.
I am sure the benefit office would not know how it affects our I-485. If I apply for unemployment benefit, does this mean I apply public aid and become public charge? or I basically should get this benefit because my company already paid????
More comments, please. BTW, my I-485 ND=05/2001, close to the final adjudication.