Entering Noncitizen Designation - SNAP

Overview

The Noncitizen Designation page collects noncitizen information for a client. This page is used to capture information regarding the client’s United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) Designation. Legal Permanent Resident and other noncitizen information will be collected on the Legal Permanent Resident and Noncitizen pages, which are available after this page.

All lawful noncitizens enter the U.S. under a particular section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and are given documentation regarding their status, their date of U.S. entry, and an Alien Registration Number (A number).

Note: If a client is currently a citizen but previously was a noncitizen and there is data in this section, this section will be available.

To enter a client’s Noncitizen Designation, you must:

1. access the Noncitizen Designation page in the Assessed Person Nonfinancials section of the workflow
2. select the Noncitizen designation from the drop-down list
   1. Asylee
   2. Battered Noncitizen/VAWA
   3. Citizens from Compacts of Free Associations (COFA) Nations
   4. Conditional Entrant
   5. Cuban/Haitian Entrant
   6. Deportation Withheld Noncit.
   7. Deportation Order Shown
   8. Hmong
   9. Highland Laotian
   10. Legal Permanent Resident
   11. Naturalized Citizen
   12. Noncitizen Veteran
   13. Nonimmigrant
   14. Parolee
   15. PRUCOL
   16. Refugee
   17. Undetermined/Opt-Out
   18. Victim of Trafficking
   19. Vietnamese Amerasian
   20. Special Humanitarian Parole
3. enter the Alien Registration No., if applicable. (If the leading character is an A you must drop the A and substitute a zero as the leading character)
4. select the current noncitizen designation Status from the drop-down list
   1. Active
   2. Closed
   3. Denied
   4. Pending
5. enter the Start date of the USCIS status
6. enter the Expiration date, if applicable (i.e., an expiration date must be entered for Parolees, but is not required for LPRs)
7. enter the Initial date of entry into the U.S
8. indicate if the client is eligible for SNAP by selecting Legal SNAP disqualified Yes/No. See details in the Legal SNAP Disqualified Indicator subsection below
9. enter the Section reference information, from the provided drop-down list if applicable
10. if Other is selected for Section reference, enter the Other section reference
11. click Save to save the record to the select list
12. click Next to save your entries or changes and go to the next page in the workflow, or
13. click Finish to save your entries or changes and to exit the page and the workflow.

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Legal SNAP Disqualified Indicator

The Legal SNAP disqualified indicator determines what income and expenses are used in the SNAP benefit calculation for households that contain eligible SNAP members and legal noncitizens ineligible for federal SNAP benefits.

When completing the Legal SNAP disqualified indicator, the system asks the question:

“Is this person a legal noncitizen who is ineligible to participate in the Federal SNAP program?”

For simplicity, the question has been separated into two parts:

1. Is this person a legal noncitizen?
2. Is this person ineligible to participate in the Federal SNAP program?
   1. If the answer to either question is “no”, then you must code the Legal SNAP disqualified indicator as “No”.
   2. If the answer to one of the questions is “no”, then you must code the Legal SNAP disqualified indicator as “No”.
   3. If the answer to both questions is “yes”, then you must code the Legal SNAP disqualified indicator as “Yes”.

Legal SNAP Disqualified Indicator Coding

Noncitizen designation	Is this person a legal noncitizen?	Is this person ineligible to participate in the Federal SNAP program?	How to code the Legal SNAP disqualified indicator
Amerasian	Yes	No	No
Citizens from Compacts of Free Associations (COFA) Nations	Yes	No	No
Cuban/Haitian Entrant	Yes	No	No
Asylee (Active Status), Refugee, Deportation Withheld Noncit., Victim of Trafficking, and Special Humanitarian Parolee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deportation Order Shown	No	Yes	No
Nonimmigrant (Diplomats, Students, Visitors)	No * as this is a temporary status	Yes	No
Undetermined/Opt-Out *This status is used for individuals who do not have an immigration status as well as those who have opted out of receiving SNAP benefits.	No	Yes	No
Legal Permanent Resident (regardless of age) that has had a LPR status equal to or greater than 5 years	Yes	No	No
Legal Permanent Resident (18 yrs and over) and has  had LPR status for less than 5 years	Yes	Yes	Yes
Legal Permanent Resident (children under 18 yrs), regardless of number of years residing in the US	Yes	No	No
Legal Permanent Resident (18 yrs and over), has had LPR status for less than 5 years and their status prior to LPR adjustment was: An Asylee A Cuban/Haitian Entrant An Amerasian immigrant A Refugee A Victim of Severe Forms of Trafficking A noncitizen whose Deportation is Withheld Certain Afghan Nationals Granted Parole Between July 31, 2021, and September 30, 2023 Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants (SIV) Certain Ukrainian Nationals Granted Parole Between February 24, 2022, and September 30, 2024 Hmong and Highland Laotian Tribal Members American Indians Born Abroad Legal Permanent Resident (18 yrs and over) and they have had their status under 5 years and they: are a Disabled Noncitizen; have worked a minimum of 40 Qualifying Quarters are an elderly noncitizen born on or before 8/22/31 and who was lawfully residing In the U.S. on 8/22/96 are a Veteran or Active Duty Personnel	Yes	No	No
Parolee with parole period of at least one year and has resided in the US greater than or equal to 5 years	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parolee (18 yrs and over) with parole period of at least one year and has resided in the US less than 5 years	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parolee (children under 18 yrs) with parole period of at least one year, regardless of number of years residing in the US	Yes	Yes	Yes
Battered Noncitizen/VAWA residing in the US greater than or equal to 5 years Battered Noncitizen/VAWA (18 yrs and over) and has resided in the US less than 5 years Battered Noncitizen/VAWA (children under 18 yrs) regardless of number of years residing in the US *Battered Noncitizens must meet other conditions. Please see Battered Noncitizens	Yes *A “Yes” code would not apply to nonimmigrants and undetermined noncitizens	Yes, if eligibility conditions are not met No, if eligibility conditions are met	Yes, if eligibility conditions are not met No, if eligibility conditions are met
PRUCOL [Employment Authorized, Pending Asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Paroled for a period of less than one year, etc.]	Yes	Yes	Yes
Naturalized Citizen	No	No	No