Health Insurance Test for Green-Card Applicants Could Sharply Cut Future U.S. Legal Immigration
By Julia Gelatt and Mark Greenberg
The Trump administration on a Friday evening earlier this month quietly issued a presidential proclamation decreeing that new immigrants be denied entry to the United States unless they prove they can obtain eligible health insurance within 30 days of arrival or will have sufficient resources to pay for foreseeable medical costs. This new policy has the potential to block fully two-thirds of those who apply for legal permanent residence from abroad, according to Migration Policy Institute (MPI) estimates—and thus could have as significant an impact on reshaping future legal immigration as the sweeping public-charge regulation finalized earlier this year.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/health-insurance-test-green-card-applicants-could-sharply-cut-future-us-legal-immigration
