Quick and dirty - last year in April I received my Employment Authorization Card. It mentions that it has an expiry date, and that I can have it renewed. However, in the time since then, I have become a Permanent Resident (I have a Green Card), I have a SSN, all that good stuff. All the information I can find on it seems that I do not need to renew the EAC - that it was basically a temporary card that allowed me to work until permanent residence was established.
Anyone with experience in this know if this is the case? Should I be scrambling to get my EAC renewed or is the Green Card/SSN all I need for work anymore?
Just wanted to ask the Dopers before calling the INS with an utterly mundane question. I just want to be sure I’m reading the information correctly.
Before I had a green card, I had a temporary employment visa which allowed me to work in the US – but I didn’t have an “Employment Authorization Card”, perhaps because at that stage I could only work for the employer who had sponsored me. Recently, my employer went through all the staff collecting documentation for them (even though more than 90% would be US-born US-citizens), and for me all they needed to see and pohotocopy was my green card.
Thanks, guys, and thanks especially for the link, Duckster. I spend a lot of time perusing* the INS website, but sometimes my eyes start glazing over…
perusing is about the best I can do at times; if I don’t know exactly how to word what I’m looking for, I can find interesting and informative links without ever answering the original question.
You might also want to read up on the I-9 requirements. Employers aren’t allowed by law to specify which documents or combinations of acceptable documents they will accept for I-9 purposes, but a green card is a List A document for I-9 purposes, wich means you shouldn’t need to show anything else to prove your U.S. employment eligibility.