I’d like to know what falls under the scope of public assistance (‘Public Charge’).

Public charge generally refers to situations covered under the Public Charge and Public Benefit rules, such as receiving cash assistance or long-term hospital care. The specific list is as follows:

Asylees and refugees; Amerasian immigrants at admission; Afghan and Iraqi interpreters or Afghan or Iraqi nationals employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government; Cuban and Haitian entrants at adjustment of status; Applicants seeking adjustment under the Cuban Adjustment Act; Nicaraguans and other Central Americans who are adjusting status to LPR; Haitians who are adjusting status to LPR; Lautenberg parolees; Special immigrant juveniles; Applicants for registry; Applicants seeking Temporary Protected Status (TPS); Certain nonimmigrant ambassadors, ministers, diplomats, and other foreign government officials, and their families; Human trafficking victims (T nonimmigrants); Victims of qualifying criminal activity (U nonimmigrants); Self-petitioners under the Violence against Women Act (VAWA); Certain battered noncitizens who are qualified aliens under PRWORA; Applicants adjusting status who qualify for a benefit as surviving spouses, children, or parents of military members; Noncitizen American Indians born in Canada; Noncitizen members of the Texas Band of Kickapoo Indians of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Nationals of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos applying under the Indochinese Act; Polish and Hungarian Parolees; Certain Syrian nationals; Applicants adjusting under the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness (LRIF) law; and any other categories of noncitizens exempt under any other law from the public charge ground of inadmissibility provisions under INA 212(a)(4).