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149 b. An alien granted asylum; c. A refugee; d. An alien granted parole for at least one year by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); e. An alien who has had deportation withheld under section 241(b)(3) or 243(h) of the Immigration and NaturalizationAct (INA); f. A battered spouse or child, or parent or child of a battered person, with a petition pending under INA section 204(a) or 244(a); g. Victims of trafficking under theTrafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, including certain family members of victims of a severe form of trafficking; and/or h. Five Year Bar: Qualified aliens who arrived in the US on or after August 22, 1996, are prohibited from receiving federal child care assistance benefits until they have been in the US for five years or until they become US citizens. Only the status of the child is considered. A parent’s citizenship or alien status is not considered in determining the child’s eligibility, however, when the parent qualifies under one of the following criteria the children qualify: This five-year bar does not apply to the aliens listed below and they may immediately qualify for child care assistance, regardless of their date of entry into the US: • Refugees admitted under Section 207 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA); • Asylees admitted under Section 208 of the INA; • Aliens whose deportation has been withheld under Section 241(b)(3) or 243(h) of the INA ; • Cuban/Haitian entrants as defined in Section 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of1980; • Aliens admitted as Amerasian immigrants; • US military veterans or active-duty military, their spouses, and dependent children; and • Victims of trafficking under section 107(b)(1) ofthe Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. 4070-2 C. CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION FOR CHILDREN To be eligible to receive PASS II or PASS III child care assistance each child must have their US citizenship, US national, or qualified alien status verified. When the verification provided also includes the child’s date of birth, a second document is not needed for age verification.