No U.S. citizens for Unemployment Insurance benefits?

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Nowadays, more and more H1bs or I-485s are laid off. These aliens are qualified for UI? I did a litle bit resaerch and the following is the results for your reference.

Can individuals who are not U.S. citizens collect UI benefits?
(http://www.edd.ca.gov/uifaq6.htm#eligibility)
To collect UI benefits aliens must establish that they were in satisfactory immigration status and authorized to work in the United States when earning the wages used to establish their claim. In addition, the claimant must provide proof that they remain in satisfactory immigration status and are authorized to work each week that benefits are claimed. EDD verifies immigration status and work authorization through an electronic system maintained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.


We'd better not try to touch the UI!
 
When comes to Taxes and SS they r 1st one to collect from evreyone Alien or no alien but when comes to benifits they in alien or no alien. I think they should either lower our Tax bracket and SS % then them . I really think some one shpould file some sort of Law suit for this and i bet there will thounds of happy ppl like me who will be willing to contribute.
 
jzh, ghost-rider,

I was reading about this somewhere and I came across an interesting law, apparently you need to establish a solid work history over 40 quarters before you can apply for public benefits, which works out to 10 years! :)

Sources: Instructions for form I864 - sponsorship form for permanant residency.

So maybe it applies only for family based GC's and doesn't hold good for employment based. But I wouldn't want to touch it with a barge pole! :)
 
WEll 10yrs or 40 qtrs is for SS benifits after the age of 65. So if a H1 person goes away after 6 yrs he gets nothing when he is 65. he has to come back and work again for 4 yrs to get something from that. I think we a person who comes here for 6 yrs has nothing to do with SS if he doesnot intend to stay and when he leves the country he should get is money back. I along with some friends tried to think out and thought about putting a law suit but then most of us ended up in 485 category so we dropped the idea but i think if some H1 ppl here can take some initiative they can go for it.
 
FYI: totalization Agreement

Indian Govt. to sign Totalisation deal with US.

In a move that could save Indian software companies around 20 percent of onsite work force costs, the government of India has finalized a draft Totalisation Agreement to be taken up with the government of the United States (US) for discussion. If the two countries sign the agreement, Indian companies, which currently pay more than 20 percent of the wages of onsite employees as social security tax, will no longer need to the tax.

A totalisation agreement allows an employee to be covered under the social security system of only one country, usually the home country. Since Indian workforce working in USA are already covered in India under various social security schemes India's view is that these employees need not be brought under the US social security laws since they do not avail social security benefits in USA.

Many countries doing business in USA like, The US has such agreements with Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea (South), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Some European countries like Belgium and Germany have already exempted several Indian companies from contributing to their social security system.

Singapore also has a general exemption from social security contributions for non-residentsIndian IT companies lack business continuity plan; says KPM

This news appeared on many sites and in many papers. Here is the link to one of the sources:
http://www.offshoredev.com/jsp/features_detail.jsp?fid=117
 
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