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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 15

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 5 Chapter 15 Noncitizens, Refugees, and Citizenship

PAROLEE A noncitizen who appears to be inadmissible to the inspecting officer, but who is permitted to enter the U.S. under emergency conditions or because that noncitizen's entry is determined to be in the public interest. Although parolees are required to leave when the conditions supporting their parole cease to exist, they may sometimes adjust immigration status. PASSPORT Any travel document issued by a competent authority showing the bearer's origin, identity, and nationality, if any, which is valid for the entry of the bearer into a foreign country. PERMANENT RESIDENT NONCITIZEN A person who enters the country with an immigrant visa or adjusts his status after entering as a nonimmigrant, Refugee or asylee. Persons with this status are entitled to live and work in the U.S. and collect entitlement benefits, if qualified. See the definitions for immigrant and lawful permanent resident noncitizen, which are terms used interchangeably with this term. PRIMARY VERIFICATION A query to validate noncitizen documentation using the ASVI system. REFUGEE Any person who is outside his country of nationality and who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Unlike asylees, refugees apply for and receive this status prior to entry into the U.S. REPLENISHMENT AGRICULTURAL WORKER (RAW) Any noncitizen who is granted temporary or permanent resident status under Section 210A(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by IRCA, based on prior agricultural employment within the U.S. The RAW program was implemented during a fiscal year from 1990 – 1993 only upon announcement by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor of a shortage of agricultural workers in the U.S. for that fiscal year. SECONDARY VERIFICATION A request to validate noncitizen documentation, after or in lieu of primary verification, using Form G-845. Secondary verification is performed by the ISV using various automated or manual sources. This is completed by the Division of Family Assistance (DFA) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement (SAVE) Coordinator. SEVERE VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCE An individual who has been used in severe forms of trafficking in persons. For example, sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the