By Dinah Wiley [Update: In August 2022, the Biden administration codified the DACA program in regulation. The regulation did not change health insurance for DACA grantees. For current information on DACA, visit the National Immigration Law Center.] We receive a lot of questions about the health insurance eligibility of non-citizens with a special Deferred Action status […]
By Dinah Wiley In Part I of this blog series, I noted that immigrants have unique concerns about signing up for health insurance, and are less likely than citizens to do so, and that blog addressed confidentiality concerns of immigrant families. The privacy concerns are paramount, yet a mixed-status family will also wonder if they […]
By Dinah Wiley Immigrant families are among the most in need of health reform, with high rates of uninsurance and poverty despite employment rates as high as those of citizen-headed households. How will these families fare under health reform? Though a few federal rules are still undecided, we can safely say that many non-citizens will […]
By Dinah Wiley With the focus in the Nation’s Capitol on immigration reform, concerns abound about border security and about the fate of the 11.1 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S. But the current debates have focused little on the 4.5 million citizen children of undocumented parents who will also be greatly affected by […]
