Immigrants
Immigration documentation types
You may need to have one or more of the following documents or numbers when you apply for and enroll in Marketplace coverage. The documents you need depend on your immigration status.
- Permanent Resident Card, “Green Card” (I-551)
- Reentry Permit (I-327)
- Refugee Travel Document (I-571)
- Employment Authorization Document (I-766)
- Machine Readable Immigrant Visa (with temporary I-551 language)
- Temporary I-551 Stamp (on passport or I-94/I-94A)
- Arrival/Departure Record (I-94/I-94A)
- Arrival/Departure Record in foreign passport (I-94)
- Foreign Passport
- Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status (I-20)
- Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor Status (DS-2019)
- Notice of Action (I-797)
- Document indicating membership in a federally recognized Indian tribe or American Indian born in Canada
- Certification from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
- Document indicating withholding of removal
- Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) eligibility letter (if under 18)
- Alien number (also called alien registration number or USCIS number) or I-94 number
- USCIS Acknowledgement of Receipt (I-797C)