Employment and Waiting for Green Card

[pogingolsen 2]

Hi everyone, first of all, this community has helped me a lot. I have one question please.

I am in the US right now and I am waiting for my green card to arrive in the mail. I am F24 visa. For the mean time, there's a label in my passport that says "Upon endorsement serves as temporary i-551 evidencing permanent residence for 1 year". I got a job offer today and my question is, what document should I need to have as a work authorization for them?

I my passport/visa good enough already? Thanks ahead for your help.

[aaron2020 11,651]

Your I-551 stamp is a green card. That's your work authorization.

You will need a SSN if you want to be paid.

[pogingolsen 2]

Thank you Aaron. Do you also happen to know how to handle employers that are skeptical since the stamp says valid for only 1 year?

What proof can I give them that my green card is on it's way?

[aaron2020 11,651]

Thank you Aaron. Do you also happen to know how to handle employers that are skeptical since the stamp says valid for only 1 year?

What proof can I give them that my green card is on it's way?

You will need to educate the employer.

Show them this from USCIS: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/temporary-i-551-stamps-and-mrivs

Then you can tell the employer that they can not insist on other paperwork. Refusing to accept the I-551 stamps opens them up for fines and penalties for discrimination.

http://www.greencardlawyers.com/answers_for/I-9FAQs.html#Can I refuse to hire a person who does not have a U.S. birth certificate or a green card but has other papers

e there other employer requirements besides completing the Form I-9?

Yes. There are anti-discrimination rules. An employer could be fined or penalized for failing to hire an authorized worker for discriminatory reasons, for demanding specific documents, for asking to see more than the minimum documents, and for other reasons. The Office of Special Counsel has caused employers to pay a total of over $1 million in back-pay to workers, has required employers to rehire workers, and has levied fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. The amount of the fine will depend on whether the employer made a genuine error, if the workers were authorized to work, if there were repeated violations or warnings, and other factors.

Read this too; http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/Right2Work_student_advance.pdf

[pogingolsen 2]

Thank you Arron and this is exactly that I needed. Thanks!