Working with temp work authorization

[kimberly&tarek 0]

Hi everyone,

I need some advice....

My husband got a 90 work authorization when he flew thru JFK. It expires on 5/26/07. He is currently interviewing for serveral jobs right now. I am worried that he wont get them because of the work permit expiring. We have not applied for AOS yet because we are still saving money. If he did get a job we would have enough money to apply, but we would still have to wait the 90 days for the EAD. Anyone have any advice? What should we tell the potential employers if they ask about this? Thanks in advance!

Kim

[Yodrak 7]

MarocAmer,

Not true. One cannot change to K3 status from any other status. The only way to be in K3 status is to enter using a K3 visa.

Yodrak

The 90 day EAD received at JFK was as a K1, fiance; once you married he is now a K3. .....

Good luck.

[meauxna 15]

spouses are considered K3 relatives.

No, spouses are considered Immediate Relatives.

K-3 is a very specific status. You don't get there just by being married.

[Dr_LHA 3]

It's not changing from a K1 to K3 "visa" it's the status that is changing from fiance to husband and spouses are considered K3 relatives. Filing the AOS is effecting becoming a "relative" not a fiance.

Where did you get this little gem of information from then?

[rebeccajo 14]

Hi everyone,

I need some advice....

My husband got a 90 work authorization when he flew thru JFK. It expires on 5/26/07. He is currently interviewing for serveral jobs right now. I am worried that he wont get them because of the work permit expiring. We have not applied for AOS yet because we are still saving money. If he did get a job we would have enough money to apply, but we would still have to wait the 90 days for the EAD. Anyone have any advice? What should we tell the potential employers if they ask about this? Thanks in advance!

Kim

Kim,

If potential employers ask to see your husband's work authorization document, he won't be able to tell them anything other than the fact that he doesn't have one. And that is likely what will keep him from getting a job.

Perhaps it would be a good investment to find a way to come up with the $180. Credit card advance - whatever it takes.

Hope it works out for you. It's a tough spot. We really didn't have the money to file for my husband's second EAD either, but we REALLY couldn't afford for him to be out of work.

[Yodrak 7]

MarocAmer,

You have been mis-informing your husband.

And a K1's status lasts the full 90 days, it does not end with marriage. They go out of status after their allowed stay in the USA - 90 days - expires if they have not yet applied for adjustment.

Do not try to apply the basis for an EAD application outside of the EAD.

Yodrak

Yodrak,

You're wrong, I've been through this with my husband.

It's not changing from a K1 to K3 "visa" it's the status that is changing from fiance to husband and spouses are considered K3 relatives. Filing the AOS is effecting becoming a "relative" not a fiance.

"ajustment pending" (Category 274a.12©(9) Adjustment applicant) for the EAD

Don't file your AOS and you are out of status, your K1 was only good for 90 days maximum, it ends when you marry your fiance; not when the 90 days passes.

FYI: My timeline may confuse you, because I'm fiilng an I130 to bring my husband in from Morocco. He was in the U.S., he came into the U.S. as my K1 fiance, we married, oops! he went to Morocco without applying for advance parole, the only way he can return is with the approval of the pending I130.

Edited April 4, 2007 by Yodrak

[rebeccajo 14]

The 90 day EAD received at JFK was as a K1, fiance; once you married he is now a K3.

Your husband might have become a K3 visa applicant when he went home to Morocco prior to filing adjustment of status, but that doesn't make all the other K1 applicants who marry a K3 the moment they say "I do".

[mybackpages 0]

FYI: My timeline may confuse you, because I'm fiilng an I130 to bring my husband in from Morocco. He was in the U.S., he came into the U.S. as my K1 fiance, we married, oops! he went to Morocco without applying for advance parole, the only way he can return is with the approval of the pending I130.

What happened? Why did he return to Morocco? Did he know he would be abandoning the k-1 visa and the AOS (if you filed)?

[Emo 0]

Hi everyone,

I need some advice....

My husband got a 90 work authorization when he flew thru JFK. It expires on 5/26/07. He is currently interviewing for serveral jobs right now. I am worried that he wont get them because of the work permit expiring. We have not applied for AOS yet because we are still saving money. If he did get a job we would have enough money to apply, but we would still have to wait the 90 days for the EAD. Anyone have any advice? What should we tell the potential employers if they ask about this? Thanks in advance!

Kim

Your husband should show his EAD when he is asked.

Relax and read more info:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=58444&hl=

[lynamon 0]

From what I have read as far as completing I-9's at a workplace ... you need to show them documentation that you are eligible to work (temp EAD) ... they make note that when it expires they must obtain from you your new documentation in order for you to continue to work.

They are not supposed to discriminate against you because you have a temporary EAD.