Changes to Citizenship and Immigration Status Verification for Health Care Programs

This memo announces the removal of limitations on the number of reasonable opportunity periods granted to members who must verify their U.S. citizenship, identity, or immigration status. It also announces the addition of Wisconsin’s birth records query and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program as sources of verification of U.S. citizenship that do not require an individual to also provide verification of identity.