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■ TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP If an individual has been in prison since they last applied, regardless of the expiration date on the document on file, request to review their current document or access SAVE. Their residence may have been revoked, or they may have been issued a different status affecting their eligibility. Exceptions: Do not consider a Cuban/Haitian entrant’s Form I-94 with an expiration date of 1/15/81 to be expired. These persons have acceptable status. Trafficking Victims: As of November 6, 2001, certification letters issued by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for adults and eligibility letters for children will no longer contain an expiration date. Individuals who were certified before this date received letters with 8­ month expiration dates. As these letters expire, ORR will issue recertification letters without expiration dates. Accept the original ORR recertification (without an expiration date) letter or letter for children in place of USCIS documentation. The “entry date” will not change on the recertification letter. Victims are not required to provide any documentation of their immigration status Trafficking Victims must adjust their status to Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) they do not have to meet the 5-year bar once the status is updated. 431 DETERMINING QUALIFIED AND NON-QUALIFIED NON-CITIZEN STATUS (toc) Determine if the individual claiming non-citizen status is a “qualified” or a “non-qualified” non-citizen. Use the non-citizen’s USCIS document(s), USCIS letter, a court order, passport and/or other resources listed in the following sections to determine the non-citizen’s qualified status. “Qualified” non-citizens include the following: ●Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) ●Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) ●Refugees ●Conditional Entrants ●Asylees ●Compacts of Free Association (COFA) citizens of the ●Persons granted withholding of deportation or Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the removal Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau ●Conditional Entrants ●Persons granted parole for a period of at least one year ●Cuban/Haitian entrants ●Certain Abused non-citizens ●Compacts of Free Association (COFA) citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENTATION OF NON-CITIZEN STATUS Division of Social Services Eligibility and Payments Manual 01 May 26 MTL 06/26 A-430