WAC 388-466-0005 Immigration status requirement for refugee assistance

1. To be eligible for refugee cash assistance (RCA) and refugee medical assistance (RMA), a person must prove, by providing documentation issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), that he or she was: 

   1. Admitted as a refugee under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationalities Act (INA);

   2. Paroled into the U.S. as a refugee or asylee under section 212(d)(5) of the INA;

   3. Granted conditional entry under section 203(a)(7) of the INA;

   4. Granted asylum under section 208 of the INA;

   5. Admitted as an Amerasian Immigrant from Vietnam through the orderly departure program, under section 584 of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, incorporated in the FY88 Continuing Resolution P.L. 100-212;

   6. A Cuban-Haitian entrant who was admitted as a public interest parolee under section 212(d)(5) of the INA;

   7. From Iraq or Afghanistan and has been granted Special Immigrant status under section 101(a)(27) of the INA.

2. A permanent resident alien meets the immigration status requirements for RCA and RMA if the individual was previously in one of the statuses described in subsections (1)(a) through (g) of this section.