回複：please help: unemployment insurance benefits?

因為您沒有說明您在那一州，所以老貓用德州的資料做為範例，您可以著意到並不是隻要您申請就可以拿得到，是否能夠取得取決於相關單位對於您所提的所有資料是否具有說服性，以下是德州相關的規定，您應該參考這個資料，當然有一點很重要的是各州的規定不盡相同，所以您必須查看您所在州的相關資料。
至於是否會影響到您取得移民歸化的資格，基本上應該不會有重大的影響，移民局關心的是您申請的資料是否有任何問題，至於您是否取得社會福利並不是移民局真正關心的問題。(因為這個部份的權責與實施的細節在於個別州的州政府對於這個問題的相關規定，並不是屬於聯邦政府直接管轄的範圍，所以沒有一定的標準，當然如果您涉及任何詐騙的犯罪行為，一旦被查獲並經審判判決確定，一定會直接影響到您的移民資格)
(資料來源)
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ui/bnfts/bi-99.pdf

How Do I Qualify?
The law sets qualifying requirements in three main areas: your past wages, your job separation, and ongoing availability and work search. You must meet all of the requirements to receive benefits.

1. Your past wages

To establish a payable claim, you must have received enough wages to meet the requirements. We use the wages paid to you during a recent 12-month period, called the base period, to calculate your benefit amounts. The base period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before you filed your claim. (Calendar quarters are three-month periods beginning with January, April, July, or October.) This means that when we calculate benefits we can't use earnings in the calendar quarter in which you filed your claim, or the quarter just before that. We base your weekly benefit amount on the highest quarter earnings in your base period. We divide that high quarter's total earnings by 25 to get your weekly benefit amount. We may have to change this amount to be inside the allowed range of benefit amounts in Texas. Your maximum, or total, benefit amount is the smaller of 26 times the weekly amount, or 27% of all your wages in the base period. Your weekly benefit amount will be between $56 and $364 depending upon the wages you earned.

To have a payable claim, the law requires that:

You have wages in at least two of the four base period calendar quarters being used, and
Your total base period wages are at least 37 times your weekly benefit amount, and
If you qualified for benefits on a prior claim, you must have earned 6 times your new weekly benefit amount since that time.
If you were out of work for a prolonged time during the base period because of a medically verifiable illness, injury, disability, or pregnancy, tell TWC, because you may be able to use an alternate base period. If you meet the requirements, the alternate base period could use wages you received before your illness or injury. If you qualify under both base periods, you decide which base period to use.

2. Your separation from your last work

You must be unemployed or partially unemployed through no fault of your own to receive benefits. Examples of qualifying reasons are:

You were laid off due to lack of work.
You are still working but the employer reduced your hours. (Your reduction in hours must not be the result of a disciplinary action.)
You were fired without work-related misconduct. Examples of misconduct are: a violation of company policy; violation of law; neglect or mismanagement of your position; or failure to perform your work acceptably if you are capable of doing so.
You quit your job for a good work-related or medical reason. TWC may rule good cause if the work situation would cause a person who truly wants to keep the job to leave it. Examples of possible good cause are: unsafe working conditions; significant changes in hiring agreement; or not receiving payment for your work. You should also have tried to correct the problem before quitting. Examples of medical reasons are: quitting on your doctor's advice, or quitting to care for a minor child if required for a documented medical reason.
You quit to protect yourself from family violence or stalking, evidenced by an active or recently issued protective order, a police record documenting family violence or stalking directed against you, and medical documentation of family violence against you.
If you quit to move with your hu*****and or wife, you may be able to receive benefits after a disqualification of 6 to 25 weeks. This is a disqualification of both time and money, because we must subtract the number of disqualified weeks from your total benefits.

3. Ongoing availability and work search requirements

During each week you claim benefits, you must:

Make an active search for full-time work
Be physically able to work
Be available for full-time work
Apply for and accept suitable work
Be registered for work search online at www.texasworkforce.org, (click on WorkInTexas), or with the nearest workforce center
Call TWC, or call or report to a workforce center, as instructed