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Published on Thursday, September 04, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Public charge is a term used by consular offices and the Bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to describe those who cannot support themselves and who depend on public benefits like CalWORKs or Social Security. Depending on your immigration status, the USCIS can refuse to let you enter the U.S., re-enter the U.S., or become a permanent resident if it believes you will be unable to support yourself and will have to rely on public benefits in the future.
The USCIS should look at your entire life situation to determine if you are likely to rely on public benefits in the future. Although the USCIS can look at whether you used benefits in the past, the USCIS cannot make its decision based only on what happened in the past
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