Read the following at the USCIS website: https://www.uscis.gov/feewaiver
How requesting a fee waiver affects your current immigration status
- Relying primarily on public cash assistance for income maintenance can affect your eligibility for some immigration benefits, depending on the totality of the circumstances. You may be inadmissible to the United States (and therefore ineligible for certain immigration benefits like a Green Card) because you are more likely than not to become a public charge. You may also be deportable for already having become a public charge within 5 years of entering the United States for reasons that arose before you entered the country.
You can find detailed guidance on these issues published in the May 26, 1999, edition of the Federal Register (64 Fed. Reg. 28689) and by searching for “Public Charge” at www.uscis.gov.
- When deciding your fee waiver request, we will not consider the possibility that you might be inadmissible or deportable as a public charge. We decide your fee waiver request separately from making a decision about your eligibility for the immigration benefit. However, being inadmissible as a public charge may make you ineligible for the benefit you seek.
- We will deny your application or petition if we determine that it involves false documentation, misrepresentation of facts, or other fraud, including fraud on this fee waiver request.
