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Immigrant Benefits Update

  

Author:
Celia Cole /(512) 320-0222 x110

August 12, 2003

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In 2002, Congress passed a law that restored eligibility for Food Stamps to legal immigrants with five years of residency in the United States and to all legal immigrant children, regardless of their length of residency in the country. The first of these restorations took effect on April 1, 2003, with the restoration for legal immigrant children to take effect on October 1, 2003.