New EAD's?

[Cloudy9 11]

I work in a payroll office and this week we got some new hire paperwork on someone thats an immigrant. They have their SS# with the writing on it and their EAD card but I was surprised because its so different from the one I had back in 2001. This cards validation was for 4 years! I thought EAD's only were good for one year? Did they change something recently? This persons card is valid from 2007 to 2011.

Joanne

[YuAndDan 153]

Probably depends on class of visa that they are in the USA on perhaps a NON-Immigrant work visa, or a refugee, a person that filed AOS from a K-Visa tends to get a 1 year EAD, and can renew it at no charge if AOS is taking longer than a year.

[Cloudy9 11]

Probably depends on class of visa that they are in the USA on perhaps a NON-Immigrant work visa, or a refugee, a person that filed AOS from a K-Visa tends to get a 1 year EAD, and can renew it at no charge if AOS is taking longer than a year.

I wondered about that too as it states on the ead that she is from Mexico. I remember from living in AZ that Mexicans could come and go across the border daily for work in the US with some type of Visa which I assumed might have been under NAFTA but wasn't sure.

Joanne