When individuals are successful in applying for asylum or refugee status,
they become eligible to legally work in the U.S. as a result of their
legal status. The U.S. government will grant an individual asylum if he
or she is present in the U.S. and proves that he or she has been persecuted
or has a reasonable fear of future persecution based on his or her race,
religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political
opinion. Refugee status is granted to an individual for the same reasons,
but the individual is still living outside of the U.S. Asylees and refugees
have the right to work indefinitely in the U.S. They can obtain social
security cards without any employment restrictions, and they do not have
to indicate an expiration date when filling out an I-9 form for an employer.
Even if there is a delay in an asylee or refugee getting a social security
card, he or she still can go ahead and begin working. Additionally, applicants
for asylum whose petition for asylum has been pending for 150 days or
more do have the right to apply for an Employment Authorization Document
(EAD). If an immigrant’s asylum application is still pending 180
days after he or she filed it, then U.S. government will go ahead and
make a decision on the immigrant’s request for an EAD. When you
or a loved one is facing deportation, you face the potential for a family
separated by international borders, an inability to reunite, and the loss
of the place that you may have called home for many years. The prospect
for deportation can be terrifying, particularly if you must return to
a country where violence, crime, and poverty are widespread, and one in
which you may no longer have family and friends. Our goal is to avoid
that possibility at all costs by developing a strong case on your behalf
to defend you against deportation. Call
Landerholm Immigration, A.P.C., today at (510) 756-4468, or contact us online in order to schedule
a consultation with one of our skilled and experienced deportation defense
attorneys. The sooner you contact us, the better we can represent your
interests in your deportation case.
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