Illinois Administrative Code
Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part 113 - AID TO THE AGED, BLIND OR DISABLED
Subpart B - NON-FINANCIAL FACTORS OF ELIGIBILITY
Section 113.10 - Citizenship
Universal Citation: 89 IL Admin Code ยง 113.10
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
To be eligible for assistance, an individual shall be either a U.S. citizen or a non-citizen within specific categories and subject to specific restrictions as set forth in this Section.
a) Citizenship status - Persons born in the U.S., or in its possessions, are U.S. citizens. Citizenship can also be acquired by naturalization through court proceedings, or by certain persons born in a foreign country of U.S. citizen parents.
b) Non-citizens
1) The following categories of non-citizens
may receive assistance, if otherwise eligible:
A) A United States veteran honorably
discharged and a person on active military duty, and the spouse and unmarried
dependent children of such a person;
B) Refugees under section 207 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (
8
USC 1157);
C) Asylees under section 208 (
8 USC
1158) of INA;
D) Persons for whom deportation has been
withheld under section 243(h) of INA (
8 USC
1253(h)) prior to September
30, 1996, or section 241(b)(3) of INA (
8 USC
1231(b)(3)) on or after
September 30, 1996;
E) Persons
granted conditional entry under section 203(a)(7) of INA (
8 USC
1153) , as in effect prior to April 1,
1980;
F) Persons lawfully admitted
for permanent residence under the INA including:
i) Afghani immigrants with special immigrant
status under section 101(a)(27) of INA (
8 USC
1101) . The five-year residency requirement
set forth in subsection (b)(2) of this Section does not apply to this
sub-group.
ii) Iraqi immigrants
with special immigrant status under section 101(a)(27) of INA. The five-year
residency requirement set forth in subsection (b)(2) of this Section does not
apply to this sub-group;
G) Parolees, for at least one year, under
section 212(d)(5) of INA (
8 USC 1182
);
H) Persons who are a spouse,
widow or child of a U.S. citizen or a spouse or child of a legal permanent
resident (LPR) who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by the
U.S. citizen or LPR or a member of that relative's family who lived with them,
who no longer live with the abuser or plans to live separately within one month
after receipt of assistance and whose need for assistance is due, at least in
part, to the abuse; and
I) Victims
of trafficking, or the minor child, spouse, parent or sibling of the
trafficking victim, who have been certified by, or whose status has been
verified by, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
2) Those persons who are in the
categories set forth in subsections (b)(1)(F) and (b)(1)(G) and who enter the
United States on or after August 22, 1996 shall not be eligible for five years
beginning on the date the person entered the United States.
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