[dragonwriter]

> citizens of India can receive Social Security benefits with 10 years of work.

This is about exceptions to the rule preventing payments outside the United States after 6 months, and is based on more than 10 years of work by the qualified worker.

But the actual worker needs to be a citizen or a legal permanent resident (“green card” holder) [0] to be eligible to either receive benefits themselves or have dependents receive benefits based on their eligibility.

[0] Actually, there’s a few other categories like certain refugees and asylees, but not, general dual-intent non-immigrant visa holders (like H-1B workers.)

[junar]

Do you have a source?

I think you're confusing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) with Social Security retirement benefits. Those are two different things.