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USCIS Updates Policy Manual to Make It Easier to Identify Who Is Subject to the Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility

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USCIS reorganized its Policy Manual to consolidate public charge inadmissibility guidance into a single chapter for easier reference. The update moves detailed category-specific information from appendices into Chapter 3 of Volume 8, Part G. This change helps applicants and officers quickly determine whether the public charge ground applies to a specific adjustment of status category. No substantive policy changes are made; this is a structural reorganization of existing guidance.
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We have incorporated important information regarding the categories of adjustment of status applicants to whom the public charge ground of inadmissibility applies from the appendices in Volume 8, Part G, of the USCIS Policy Manual, to Chapter 3, Applicability, to make it easier to identify whether the public charge ground of inadmissibility applies to a specific adjustment of status category.

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