AOS and EAD May filers

[love my Nour 5]

Need to know if anyone has received final papers for May filing of AOS and EAD and AP. We filed ours and have receipt

May 8th. He is now trying to get driver's license and our DMV office says we need to wait for final papers before he can apply. Now this could take a while. Has anyone had any problems with getting their license? Need your input please and thanks

[Antonio y Olga 1]

We received our EAD and AP but nothing is coming up on our 485, I'm nervous since I see others getting their papers having filed after me. My papers are in California, where are yours?

[Abby-Ron 8]

Unfortunately you need EAD/AOS to get drivers license if you never got your SSN before your I-94 expired. Many people here dont realized that if you are a K1 filers and when you arrive in the US, first thing you should get is your SSN. With that you can open a bank account, get a cellular phone contract, get a Drivers License/State ID, etc.. Once you get married though, you are out of status in the US, and SSA requires that you need status to apply for the number. I fortunately got my SSN on the day of our marriage, and that same day I lost my status in the US, even though my I-94 was not yet expired. The officer in SSN said I can still apply using my maiden name since my I-94 was not yet expired even though I was technically not allowed to get one since I just got married and have to apply using my maiden name and change to married name once I get either EAD or AOS.. whatever came first. I got my EAD about a month ago, and showed my EAD card to SSA office and they got me a letter stating that I "reapplied" for SSN and received a letter with my new SSN card under my married name...

Without SSN and a valid "status", one of them is an unexpired I-94 permit, EAD, Greencard, you cant get a Drivers License or State ID in the US..

Edited September 7, 2008 by Abby-Ron

[love my Nour 5]

Unfortunately you need EAD/AOS to get drivers license if you never got your SSN before your I-94 expired. Many people here dont realized that if you are a K1 filers and when you arrive in the US, first thing you should get is your SSN. With that you can open a bank account, get a cellular phone contract, get a Drivers License/State ID, etc.. Once you get married though, you are out of status in the US, and SSA requires that you need status to apply for the number. I fortunately got my SSN on the day of our marriage, and that same day I lost my status in the US, even though my I-94 was not yet expired. The officer in SSN said I can still apply using my maiden name since my I-94 was not yet expired even though I was technically not allowed to get one since I just got married and have to apply using my maiden name and change to married name once I get either EAD or AOS.. whatever came first. I got my EAD about a month ago, and showed my EAD card to SSA office and they got me a letter stating that I "reapplied" for SSN and received a letter with my new SSN card under my married name...

Without SSN and a valid "status", one of them is an unexpired I-94 permit, EAD, Greencard, you cant get a Drivers License or State ID in the US..

We have all the proof needed for NC driver's license. He has SSN but for work only on it. His visa expired 90 days after coming to US and he has his own bank account. He still can't get DL because the visa expired. If he had gotten the DL before visa expired that would have only been good until then. After visa expires, then so does Driver's License. So now we wait.........

[tkmarlow 0]

I went to get my DL but the officer there told me that my I-94 was too close to expire so he couldn't issue my DL, even though my I-94 had over 30 days left on it. The officer told me to come back with a receipt for my greencard and then he could issue it to me. we also had the SSN already in married name so that wasn't the issue

Edited September 7, 2008 by tkmarlow