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yes, you should start looking for a job, and if your potential employer wants to hire you, let them kmow that you will have your EAD card in a week or so. my current employer didn't ask for my EAD until i signed the job offer, which was two weeks after the interview.

congrats!!!

not to discourgae younor anything, but yes you have to prepare yourself psychologically and financially for at least two years to get and interview, and then another year or two (or could be two weeks after the interview) for the decision to be made, if there is no change in staffing at asylum...

i am glad you decided to go with another lawyer. i got one from a non profit organization, so i paid $300 for the lawyer to help me with the filing which also included EAD filing. they will charge another $300 for them to accompany me in the interview room. there are many organizations that are...

@Amerikanski, you filed for asylum 4 months ahead of me (mine was in october 2014). it seems to me that there will be a long wait for us in chicago, and i share your frustration. even with a decent enough job with health insurance, it is not the state i want to be, hanging and not knowing what...

congrats!

i suggest you sign up an account on USCIS website. it is at the bottom of the page that you check your status online. the good thing about it is that you will see an update each time they access your file, which you don't see them when you simply check your case. check and see when they access...

normally, it takes about one week after it is approved. i think you have ample time for your job employment. that is like 12 days from now until jul 27, and you will have at least 4-5 days extra for the employment background check after the interview. good luck!

congrats :)

you should call USCIS for a service request!

of course i dont want to go back to an F1 status and pay 12 credit hours per semester to maintain the fulltime status. like i said, i could be wrong but in my opinion, pending applicants with admission letter should be able to enroll classes with or without non-immigration student status as long...

thanks for the info. the reason i asked because i thought asylum applicants could stay in the US without a visa so they wouldn't need to be on F1 status, and thus the school wouldnt have to issue them an I-20 and just enroll them as LPRs or USCs (without involving any immigration process, i...

why out of status asylum applicants have difficulty getting into a university? in the state you live in? or you are saying it in general?

i received my EAD card today. here is my timeline so far: 10/22/14: asylum application filed (chicago) 10/24/14: asylum's NOA 11/03/14: biometrics done 03/26/15: EAD application filed 03/30/15: EAD's NOA 04/30/15: service requested 05/06/15: EAD's CPO 05/13/15: EAD card received still waiting...

you meant you got a letter for the 2nd interview?

how could it be May 1? i remember you called USCIS the same day but before me. You gave me the information about your call and then I called. you know, they might process the cases on last-in-first-out, who knows? wait until monday, and your case status might turn into CPO. if not, i suggest...

it's on the USCIS website (https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do). Just sign up for an account, and then you can add your receipt number, and you can see your case history at the bottom left of the page, and you can choose to have email and/or sms alerts.

i don't think there are any benefits as an asylum applicant. you will have to get through tough time by yourself while waiting for the process to complete, and it could take years. however, 150 days after filing an asylum application, you can apply for an EAD, commonly known as work permit...

we have pretty similar tumeline except that you got the interview and heard good news that your asylum application got approved. hang in there! i hope you will get the final decision soon. as for me, i am still waiting for an interview.

from what @shael728 described, i think it's pretty much the same thing @Zyam and i did when we called USCIS. i was not really sure that we were actually requesting an interim EAD because in my case history, these entries were added on april 30 (the date i called USCIS): "On April 30, 2015...