Eligibility
Entries across the digest that deal with eligibility.
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Immigration & Nationality
Section 245(i) Grandfathering: Who Can Still Adjust Status Inside the Country
Section 245(i) allows certain grandfathered beneficiaries to adjust status in the United States despite an unlawful entry or a lapse in status, if a qualifying petition or labor certification was filed in time.
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Immigration & Nationality
Naturalizing After Three Years of Marriage to a Citizen
Spouses of U.S. citizens may naturalize after three years of residence rather than five, but only if the marriage is intact and the spouse has been a citizen throughout that period.
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Immigration & Nationality
Registry Under INA 249: Residence Since the Statutory Date
Registry is a rarely used provision granting residence to people continuously present since January 1, 1972. Because the date has never moved, the eligible class shrinks every year.
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Bankruptcy & Debt
Chapter 7 and Chapter 13: Eligibility, Process, and Outcome
Chapter 7 sells non-exempt assets and discharges quickly; Chapter 13 pays creditors under a court-approved plan for three or five years and can cure a mortgage default.
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Bankruptcy & Debt
The Means Test and Presumption of Abuse
The means test annualizes six months of income, compares it with the state median, and for higher earners applies fixed deductions to decide whether Chapter 7 is presumed abusive.
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Health & Benefits
SSI and SSDI: Two Programs, Two Sets of Rules
SSDI is social insurance bought with work credits; SSI is a needs-based payment. The medical test is shared, but the money, the health coverage, and the traps are not.
