Do you have eligible immigration status?
When you’re filling out your Marketplace application, we’ll ask if you’re a U.S. citizen or U.S. national. We may ask if you're a naturalized or derived citizen. If you select that you aren't a U.S. citizen or U.S. national, we'll ask whether you have eligible immigration status.
You have the option to select the document that shows your immigration naturalized, or derived citizen status. You may need to provide additional information about your status, like your alien number, card number, and document expiration date. Learn more about immigration document types.
If you don’t have any of the immigration statuses below, don’t select the box. You can continue your application without answering these questions, but you won't be eligible for Marketplace coverage. It's important to complete your application, because you may still be able to get help paying for emergency services, like labor and delivery of a baby. In some states, pregnant people may also be able to get health coverage.
Did you recently gain immigration status?
We may ask if you recently gained an eligible immigration status. If you did, select the box next to your name, and enter the date that you got your status. If you recently gained an eligible immigration status, you may qualify for a Special Enrollment Period. This would allow you to enroll in a plan outside the yearly Open Enrollment Period (November 1-January 15).
If anyone in your household is a DACA recipient and lives in a state that considers DACA to be an eligible immigration status, select their name and enter 11/1/2024 as the date they gained eligible status. Get list of states.
Eligible immigration statuses
If you have one of these immigration statuses, you may be eligible for health coverage through the Marketplace:
- Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR/Green Card holder)
- Asylee
- Refugee
- Paroled into the U.S.
- Granted an employment authorization document (EAD), also called a work permit or I-766
- Individual with Non-immigrant Status (including worker visas and student visas)
- Deferred Action Status, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients
- Cuban/Haitian entrant
- Conditional entrant granted before 1980
- Battered spouse, child, or parent
- Victim of Trafficking and their spouse, child, sibling, or parent
- Special Immigrant Visa holders from Iraq or Afghanistan
- Granted Withholding of Deportation or Withholding of Removal, under the immigration laws or under the Convention against Torture (CAT)
- Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Self-Petitioners
- Member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or American Indian born in Canada
- Citizens of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau who are living in one of the U.S. states or territories (referred to as Compact of Free Association, or COFA migrants)
- Lawful Temporary Resident
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
- Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Classification
- Family Unity beneficiary, including those who are under section 1504 of the Legal Immigration and Family Equity (LIFE) Act Amendments
- Applicants for these:
- Adjustment to Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR/Green Card holder) status
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Classification
- Victim of Trafficking Visa
- Children under 14 with a pending application for asylum, for Withholding of Deportation or Withholding for Removal under the immigration laws or under the Convention against Torture (CAT)
How will you use my immigration status information?
We’ll use information you enter in your application only to determine eligibility for Marketplace health coverage. This is true whether or not you’re applying for help paying for your Marketplace coverage.
Will this impact my public charge status?
Applying for or getting Medicaid or CHIP benefits or getting cost savings for Marketplace health coverage, doesn’t make you a "public charge." This means it won’t affect your chances of becoming a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) or U.S. citizen. This means it won’t affect your chances of becoming a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) or U.S. citizen. There’s one exception for people receiving long-term care in an institution at government expense, like in a nursing facility. These people may face barriers getting a green card.
We won’t use the information for immigration enforcement purposes. You don’t need to provide citizenship or immigration status information for people on your application who aren’t applying for health coverage.
Get details about being a public charge from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Get more information
Get more information on the statuses above from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.