To be eligible for the full Pell, your EFC would need to be $0. To get the smallest Pell amount, your EFC cannot be more than $5000. Yours was $10,000. That would not make you eligible for a Pell…at all. Or the Calgrant…or any other grant that is given to lower income students.
And I completely agree. The dream act has not affected you at all. The eligibility guidelines for the Pell and Calgrant have not changed.