The USCIS – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services – recently announced an important change regarding the extension of the validity of work permits in that country. They took that period from 1 and 2 years to 5 years.
Lawyer Héctor Benítez, an immigration expert, was interviewed on the Hoy Día program, on the Telemundo network, where he stated that this was excellent news for the Latino community because the USCIS has just extended the validity period for the vast majority to five years. of the categories.
Noticias Telemundo reported this at the beginning of this week The beneficiaries They are “refugees or asylum seekers, asylum seekers or adjustment of status, people with suspended deportation and those in the process of permanent residence.”
Along the same lines, Benítez explained: “If you have pending asylum, an approved asylum, an adjustment of status, a suspension of the deportation process, a cancellation of the deportation and you already have it pending, then have suitability to qualify for a work permit for five years.”
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This is also very useful information for those who have family requests and are already in the status adjustment process.
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The lawyer emphasized that if your permit is about to expire, you should expect a number to be called automatic renewal of the work permit.
“If you have a work permit that is already in force and about to expire, propose the renewal of that permit before it expires, and in the same category you will automatically be granted a six-month (180-day) extension while you continue the new permit. And when you have it, it is valid for five years if it falls within the categories,” he explained in Hoy Día.
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“Let’s be careful. We have to be very careful at this point,” says Benítez, “if the renewal takes place after the expiry of the validity period, you will not have an automatic renewal and you will have to wait for the new permit to arrive before you are allowed to work.”
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-Is it possible to have multiple work permits for different categories?
-Yes. We have a very significant Latino community that most likely has ongoing asylum and TPS processes at the same time.
According to lawyer Benítez, that person can say that I choose the TPS that will rehabilitate and protect me by giving me immigration status, but he can decide that his work permit will come through asylum, because instead of giving him a year and a half, he will give him five years work permit.
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– Does having an approved asylum or the suspension of deportation automatically give me the right to work?
-No. There are some categories or statuses that become or generate direct work permits simply by having that status, but in this case the approved asylums do not do that. Even if the shelter is approved, the person must still submit a work permit application to be allowed to work.
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Source: Eluniverso
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