Will the EAD approval date connect the expiration date?

[immiqs]

When renewing the EAD, will the approval date automatically connect its expiration date or it may have a gap?

 

[grunggy]

They will start your new EAD date from the date it is approved. There is no dating it to match when the last one expired. So if you apply to early you will lose days on your new one. I would just make sure you have the USCIS receive your application at least 90 days before your current one expires so if they don't approve you within that timeframe you can get an interim EAD if needed. I did that and still lost some time on my new one.

 

[Dallas03096]

Unfair practice

This is another unfair practice by USCIS By making EAD approvals valid from the date of approval and not from the date of expiry of current EAD, USCIS is squeezing us.
The processing time says 30 days to 90 days. If we apply 90 days before expiry of current EAD and get approved in 30 days, then we loose 60 days because of the overlapping of validity of current EAD and new EAD.
In my son's case, we guessed the average processing time will work and applied 60 days before the expiry of current EAD. Guess what! Even after 70 days he did not get approval! He was forced to quit his summer job because of no EAD and for iEAD he has been told to wait for 90 days to be over


PD:03/2002
EB3 Concurrent Filing
I-140/I-485 RD 02/14/2003 ND 02/18/2003
Name Check cleared in 03/2003
FP1: 06/24/04 FP2: 07/27/05
I-140 AD 11/08/04 (after followup thro Senator Cornyn)
I-485 Transfer to Dallas local office: 11/08/04
3 EADs
Awaiting 3rd AP
I-485 AD: ????

 

[max2k1]

This is another unfair practice by USCIS By making EAD approvals valid from the date of approval and not from the date of expiry of current EAD, USCIS is squeezing us.
The processing time says 30 days to 90 days. If we apply 90 days before expiry of current EAD and get approved in 30 days, then we loose 60 days because of the overlapping of validity of current EAD and new EAD.
In my son's case, we guessed the average processing time will work and applied 60 days before the expiry of current EAD. Guess what! Even after 70 days he did not get approval! He was forced to quit his summer job because of no EAD and for iEAD he has been told to wait for 90 days to be over


PD:03/2002
EB3 Concurrent Filing
I-140/I-485 RD 02/14/2003 ND 02/18/2003
Name Check cleared in 03/2003
FP1: 06/24/04 FP2: 07/27/05
I-140 AD 11/08/04 (after followup thro Senator Cornyn)
I-485 Transfer to Dallas local office: 11/08/04
3 EADs
Awaiting 3rd AP
I-485 AD: ????

That's why the consensus on this forum is to apply atleast 90 days prior to your old EAD expiry IF you are currently using EAD to work.

If you send it 90+ days, you'll get approval in less than 30 days (it happened to me). If you try to cut some corners, it'll come back to bite you (Long live Murphy !!)
I'd rather be safe than sorry