should I apply for Employment Authorization first?

[Delaw 0]

If you are not allowed to work with your I-94 and your SSN then what is the essence of I-94 card in the first 90 days? Go and find out from the instruction and then your eyes will open. Organizations might not allow you...but the instreuctions say so. Find out!

[milimelo 4,562]

If you are not allowed to work with your I-94 and your SSN then what is the essence of I-94 card in the first 90 days? Go and find out from the instruction and then your eyes will open. Organizations might not allow you...but the instreuctions say so. Find out!

You don't know what the I-94 is? Departure/arrival card and you get it as a proof you have been inspected when entering the US. You want to work - get married ASAP and file AOS and wait the 90 days or how long it takes USCIS to process it. While you're at it - I-94 is not on the list of evidence allowing employment unless a specific employer's name is mentioned on there. Check out the I-9 form on usics.gov.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

If you are not allowed to work with your I-94 and your SSN then what is the essence of I-94 card in the first 90 days? Go and find out from the instruction and then your eyes will open. Organizations might not allow you...but the instreuctions say so. Find out!

You are incredibly misinformed. You are NOT allowed to work unless you have the EAD or GC.

The I-94 is your arrival/departure record, nothing else. There is a "work stamp" that JFK gives out but it does not allow a K1 to work. Please STOP giving out this misinformation, you could get someone into a lot of trouble.

Please take your own advice and read the instructions. Please also read the laws. Then read the I-9 (here: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf ) which as the document title states is "employment eligibility verification". You will see that the I-94 IS mentioned, but only for non-immigrants "authorized to work for a specific employer incident to status.." which a K1 is NOT.

Once again, please stop giving out the false information that a K1 is authorised to work without an EAD or GC.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Topic moved from AOS from a family visa to Working and Travelling During US Immigration as the more appropriate location for this topic.

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Delaw - this is the link to the acceptable documentation that allows someone to work legally in the US. http://www.uscis.gov...es/form/i-9.pdf

Employers need to check this information when they hire someone. Basically, the potential emplee needs to have a document from either Column A or Column B AND column C. The only reference to an I-94 is when one is issued to a non-immigrant who has an approved employment contract with a specific employer who sponsored him - in category A.. A K-1 will not have any of the documents listed in Category C except for an EAD - thus requires an EAD in order to be offered legal employment in the US.

Edited February 20, 2011 by Kathryn41