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Title 7: SNAP Page 11 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter I: Specific Households and Participants Households with Alien Members Revised February 13, 2026 The Five-Year Bar and Exemptions  LPRs who have, or can be credited with, 40 qualifying quarters of coverage under Title II of the Social Security Act or who have sufficient earnings through non-covered employment. See Establishing Qualifying Quarters  LPRs who are exempt from the five-year bar because of how they entered the United States. See table below. Note: Because many five-year bar exemptions are based on immigration actions that happened in the past, LPR documentation proving they are exempt from the five-year bar may be expired. Accept expired documents if they contain sufficient information for SAVE verification. When an alien provides immigration documentation, check the following chart to see if the person is an eligible alien. While the chart lists several types of documentation that can be used to verify alien status, it should be used for general guidance only. It‘s not possible to include every type of alien documents that exist, or to identify when a form may be revised and looks slightly different than the previous version.

LPRs Exempt from the Five-Year Bar Description Verification of Exempt Status Documentation Examples Amerasians An LPR who was admitted to the U.S. as an Amerasian immigrant under 584 of Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Program Appropriations Act is exempt from the five-year bar. These individuals are children fathered by a U.S. citizen in certain Southeast Asian countries during the years of U.S. conflict in that region, as well qualifying members of their family (children, spouses, mothers). Form I-551, Permanent Resident Card coded AM1 through AM8. Or Unexpired temporary I-551 stamp on Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Receipt Card, or in a foreign passport coded AM1 through AM8.