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What is our next step? We entered the US 2 weeks ago, and dont know how to get him a permission to work or greencard. Can some one please dirict our next steps? Thank you.

Fell in love on a missions trip in 2005, got married in 07, got pregnant and started IR1 visa process in 08, had baby number 2 in 10, and its now 2011, and we are just now finally getting to the end of this long road. (The mail from the embassy never arrives to my home, causing us trouble. Fingers crossed and prayers going up! Both kids born and raised in Mexico and American citizens by CRBA:

His Appointement is October 25th!

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What is our next step? We entered the US 2 weeks ago, and dont know how to get him a permission to work or greencard. Can some one please dirict our next steps? Thank you.

You'll be getting your green card in the mail within a few weeks.

Did you check off for a SSN to be applied for on the DS-260/DS-230?

With an IR-1/CR-1 visa, you have full permission to work upon arrival in the US.

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What is our next step? We entered the US 2 weeks ago, and dont know how to get him a permission to work or greencard. Can some one please dirict our next steps? Thank you.

If he entered with a CR1 or IR-1 visa, he became a lawful permanent resident (LPR), a.k.a. Green Card holder, the moment he was "admitted" to the United States. What CBP usually does and should have done with your husband is endorse the visa and thus turn it into an I-551. That's the code for Green Card, so he is a Green Card holder already and as such he can work like a horse immediately. Unless you already applied for a SSN from abroad, in which case the card should (you just never know) arrive in the mail box just like the Green Card should arrive there, you can go to the SSA office and apply for a SSN (and card) via form SS-5.

Your husband can be hired tomorrow and the passport with the I-551 is actually all the documentation needed to start working in regard to I-9 purposes. They will still need to have his SSN, just the number, not the card, but he can submit this as soon as he knows it. If it's urgent, he should be able to get the number a day after applying for one.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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What is our next step? We entered the US 2 weeks ago, and dont know how to get him a permission to work or greencard. Can some one please dirict our next steps? Thank you.

It takes a few weeks to a month to get the green card in the mail, if he checked off to be given an SSN number then just go into your local SS office and he can apply yo get it, in our case they said 7 to 10 business days but we went on a monday and by that friday it arrived in the mail.

After you get the green card and SSN and card then the job hunt can commence.

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