Under the newly-passed $900 billion pandemic relief bill, U.S. citizens and green card holders who are married to illegal immigrants will now be eligible for stimulus checks that they were denied under the previous round of COVID-19 aid. Members of mixed-status households, meaning ones in which some members have Social Security Numbers (SSN) and some don’t, are now eligible to receive a $600 direct stimulus check as well as a $600 check per dependent child, despite being excluded from receiving $1,200 checks under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability, or CARES Act, which was adopted in March, according to the text of the legislation (pdf). The new bill, which passed the House and Senate on Monday and is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump within days, also makes SSN holders in mixed-status families retroactively eligible for the $1,200 checks under the CARES Act via refundable …