Eligible Individuals

Eligible Individuals. A. An eligible individual must either be a citizen of the United States or a qualified non-citizen as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1641. B. Most United States citizens are natural-born citizens, meaning they were born in the United States or were born to United States citizens overseas. Individuals born in the United States, which includes the fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Panama Canal Zone before it was returned to Panama, are U.S. citizens at birth (unless born to foreign diplomatic staff), regardless of the citizenship or nationality of the parents. C. United States Nationals from American Samoa or Swain’s Island are treated as citizens for Medicaid eligibility purposes.