Hi, Carlos, Thank you for your patience and understanding,


To Answer your last question first, Yes, I am very familiar with the Cuban situation of the 1960's, and I am familiar with Operacion Pedro Pan, under which parents in Cuba would send their children to the US because they feared that Fidel Castro would send the children to some Soviet block country. I am also familiar with the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act of 1966

The Cuban Refugee Program provided more than $1.3 billion of direct financial assistance. They also were eligible for public assistance, Medicare, free English courses, scholarships, and low-interest college loans

The Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act (CRAA), Public Law 89-732, is a United States federal law enacted on November 2, 1966. The law applies to any native or citizen of Cuba who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959 and has been physically present for at least one year; and is admissible to the United States as a permanent resident. Under the Cuban Adjustment Act, Cuban immigrants may apply to become lawful permanent residents if they have been present in the U.S. for at least one year after they were admitted or paroled into the country. This has often been called "one year and a day" rule.


Under this Act, the Cuban refugees were and still are eligible for a Green Card and they would apply for their Green Card at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the "INS"), now known as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (the "USCIS").


The Social Security Administration does not have the authority to deny you any benefits, either Social Security Disability Benefits, Social Security Retirement Benefits, or any other type of benefits available to any lawful permanent resident or US citizen. It is their ignorance that you have to contend with. They are unfamiliar with the laws.


Since you were just a young boy at the time you first arrived in the United States, whoever you lived with must have taken you to the INS Office to be issued a Green Card. This is why I asked you the question, "What document was issued to you at that time." To be "Grandfathered in" is to derive your benefits from one of your predecessors. But this was not the case, you were not "Grandfathered in". You were here as your own right to be here as a refugee, then under the Cuban Refugee Act you were to be issued a Green Card in your own right, not through anybody else.


If this was not done for you, something else must have been done in order to prove you had a right to legal permanent residency status, otherwise, you would not have been issued a Social Security Number. If this was not done, it does not change your legal permanent residency status. But in order to tie up any loose ends, it might be necessary to visit the nearest USCIS Office with proof of the date of your arrival and apply for a Green Card.


Please tell me what was done for you in that area so that I can supplement my Answer to you



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Hi, Again, Carlos,


You can submit form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver and the Instructions


http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/files/form/i-912.pdf


http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/files/form/i-912instr.pdf - Instructions



Explain to them that the people who were caring for you were supposed to make application for you and apply to the various Relief Agencies set up for this purpose in the 1960's because you were a refugee and you were seeking asylum.



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