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Entering INS Designation - EAEDC

The INS Designation page collects noncitizen information for a client.  This page is used to capture information regarding the client’s United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) Designation. Legal Permanent Resident and other noncitizen information will be collected on the Legal Permanent Resident and Noncitizen pages, which are available after this page.  There are various designations of noncitizens listed on this page, for example:

• Refugees

• Conditional entrants

• Legal permanent residents, and so forth

All lawful noncitizens enter the U.S. under a particular section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and are given documentation regarding their status, their date of U.S. entry, and an Alien Registration Number (A number).

1. access the INS Designation page in the Assessed Person Nonfinancials section of the workflow

2. select the INS designation from the drop-down list

3. enter the Alien Registration No., if applicable.  (If the leading character is an A you must drop the A and substitute a zero as the leading character)

4. select the current INS designation Status from the drop-down list

5. enter the Start date of the USCIS status

6. enter the Expiration date, only if the Status is Closed or Denied

7. enter the Initial date of entry into the U.S

8. indicate if the client is eligible for SNAP by selecting Legal FS disqualified Yes/No

9. enter the Section reference information, from the provided drop-down list if applicable

10. if Other is selected for Section reference, enter the Other section reference

11. click Save to save the record to the select list

12. click Next to save your entries or changes and go to the next page in the workflow, or

13. click Finish to save your entries or changes and to exit the page and the workflow

Update an Existing USCIS Designation Record

1. access the INS Designation page in the Assessed Person Nonfinancials section of the workflow

2. select the INS Designation record information from the select list

3. change the applicable information. Refer to Enter INS designation information

4. click Save to update the information

5. click Next to save your entries or changes and go to the next page in the workflow, or

6. click Finish to save your entries or changes and to exit the page and the workflow

End an Existing Active USCIS Designation Record

1. access the INS Designation page in the Assessed Person Nonfinancials section of the workflow

2. select the current active INS Designation record from the select list

3. change the Status to Closed or Denied

4. enter the Expiration date

5. click Save to update the information

Delete a Record

1. from the select list, select the record to be deleted

2. click Delete

3. to acknowledge the Do you wish to delete this data? confirmation question, click Yes.  The record is deleted.

Noncitizen Policy and Procedures

  Last Update: March 15, 2012