A regulation for denying green cards or legal immigrants who are seeking the public benefits such as food stamps would be enforced by the United States on Monday.
This move which is being made by the United States would affect several number of Indian nationalities who are said to be on H-1B visas and who are in long ques for getting a permanent legal residency.
The Supreme Court has lifted the final injunction that is remaining on the ‘public charge’ regulation, on Friday which is then followed by the decision that is taken by the United States.
Stephanie Grisham who is the Press Secretary of White House has said that the regulations would be implemented on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security and that it would protect the hardworking American taxpayers an d would also safeguard the welfare programs for the Americans who truly need it and would reduce the Federal deficit. This move would also result in re- establishment of the fundamental legal principle according to which the new comers of the society should not depend on the largesse of the taxpayers of the United States but instead they should be financially self- reliant.
The final rule had been published on the 14th of August in the last year and it had been originally scheduled to come into effect on the 15th of the month of October 2019 but it had not been successful due to various court rulings.
The new rule would include a requirement that the individuals who are seeking for an extension, stay or change of status would demonstrate that no public benefits have been received over the allowed amount since the non- immigrant status which they are seeking to extend or change, has been obtained.
Based on the report which is made by the Migration Policy Institute in the year 2018, 61 per cent of non- citizen Bangladeshi families, 48 per cent of non- citizen Pakistani and 11 per cent of non- citizen Indian families would receive public benefits that would now be scrutinized under the rule.
According to the Strengthening South Asian Communities in America, the new rule would show an impact across the South Asian American community as around 10 per cent of the recipients of green card were from the South Asian countries in the financial year of 2016.
A Pew Research Center study has said that nearly 472000 or 1 per cent of the total approximate 5 million South Asians in the United States are said to be living in poverty.
It has been said that the foreign nationals would be barred from entering the United States if they have been found turning as public charges. A “public charge” is a term that is used to describe an alien who is said to be receiving the public benefits above a certain threshold.
The migrants who are living in the United States and who are found likely to become public charges is also said to be barred from making an adjustments in their immigration status, as said by the White House.
The white House has also said that the rules that are being enforced by the President Donald Trump is a long stand law which is to prevent aliens from depending on the public benefit programs.
