How does FEMA define non-citizen national and qualified non-citizen?

COVID-19 Funeral Assistance is a type of assistance provided under the FEMA Individuals and Households Program (IHP) that is available to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or qualified non-citizens. The FEMA Individual Assistance Program and Policy Guide provides the following definitions:

• U.S. Citizen: A person born in one of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands; a person born outside of the U.S. to at least one U.S. parent; or naturalized citizen.
• Non-Citizen National: A person born in an outlying possession of the U.S. (e.g., American Samoa or Swain's Island) on or after the date the U.S. acquired the possession, or a person whose parents are U.S. non-citizen nationals. All U.S. citizens are U.S. nationals; however, not every U.S. national is a U.S. citizen.
• Qualified Non-Citizen: Legal permanent resident ("green card" holder); an asylee, refugee, or a non-citizen whose deportation is being withheld; non-citizen paroled into the U.S. for at least one year; non-citizen granted conditional entry (per law in effect prior to April 1, 1980); Cuban/Haitian entrant; non-citizens in the U.S. who have been abused, subject to battery or extreme cruelty by a spouse or other family/household member, or have been a victim of a severe form of human trafficking; non-citizens whose children have been abused and non-citizen children whose parent has been abused who fit certain criteria.

There are several categories of non-citizens lawfully present in the U.S. who are not eligible for assistance under the FEMA Individuals and Households Program, including COVID-19 Funeral Assistance. These include, but are not limited to:

• Citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
• Temporary tourist visa holders
• Foreign students
• Temporary work visa holders