EAD and SS#

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ragz

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Guys,
New to this form and this is my first post. Appreciate any responses to my questions...
1.How many days does it take to get the EAD card once the EAD is approved?.
2. My wife is on H4 and got her EAD approved. What is the procedure for getting the Social Security Number once she receives the EAD card?.
3. Is there any risk of her working or going to school(and have funding) on the EAD?. I'm not planning to work on EAD.

Thanks...
 
ragz said:
Guys,
New to this form and this is my first post. Appreciate any responses to my questions...
1.How many days does it take to get the EAD card once the EAD is approved?.
2. My wife is on H4 and got her EAD approved. What is the procedure for getting the Social Security Number once she receives the EAD card?.
3. Is there any risk of her working or going to school(and have funding) on the EAD?. I'm not planning to work on EAD.

Thanks...
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1. Took mine about a week.

2. Don't know -- I'd search the gov't sites. Maybe you can even apply for it now (before the EAD arrives)?

3. It looks like the service centers are possibly going to be a lot quicker to deny I-140 / I-485 cases for things which would have resulted in an RFE in the past. If the case is denied, the EAD is invalid and, more importantly, anyone whose valid status depended on the pending I-485 (i.e. didn't have H / L as a backup) is now out of status.

In the case of your wife, I'd like to think she could go back to H4 status fairly easily, possibly by going to the border and re-entering but I don't know.

[ I'm especially glad I kept working under my H visa given these new guidelines. ]

Not sure about the funding issues -- I can't imagine there'd be a problem with this given that the EAD pretty much let's you do whatever you want. I would have thought that, if anything, her not being a permanent resident might cause problems but if the school is ok with it you should be fine I guess.

Also, afaik, she'll need to get AP to travel -- this is taking about 3-4 months currently I think -- did you apply for this along with the EAD?

Might also want to make sure that her using AP / EAD doesn't affect your H status / your not needing to use AP. I don't think it does, but a) it would suck if I was wrong :eek: and b) not all border personel are necessarily up to speed on all the regulations so the risk of someone being "confused" by this and thinking you need to use your EAD / AP are probably slightly higher.

ETA
 
I did apply for AP along with the EAD, but not yet approved.
I will make sure with my lawyer about any possible affects on my H status if my wife uses EAD and also about any inter dependencies of using AP/EAD.

Ragz
 
Hey ragz,
when did you guys apply for your wife's EAD/AP. We applied for my wife's EAD/AP in the first week of march and was wondering how long its been taking.
 
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