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Part-time job ... cashier... no big deal ... EAD/ISSUE?

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lady-alone Apprentice

lady-alone   0

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I have a SSN with DHS auth but I don't work for that company anymore. My hubbie and I only have his income and things are so tight right now that I don't know how we're going to pay rent next month. That leads me to the choice I have to make. I'm looking at getting a part-time cashier job just to get by, it will not be permanent (and is really seasonal help). We have filed all of our AOS docs, EAD, etc...so, the question is this:

Since I have the SSN with the DHS auth and the EAD that I'm waiting for is only a technicality, will it show up on a SSN background check and if not, is it a big deal to get the temporary part time work?

Any help would be appreciated....I just don't know how deeply that the company will dig since it's just a cashier job and not a manager position or any big HR job or whatever...?

Thanks!

truckerlove

- 08/29/2009 - Married

- 09/15/2009 - Medical Examination

- 11/06/2009 - Couriered AOS/I-130/I-765 (package)

- 11/09/2009 - Package Arrived @ Chicago, IL USCIS

- 11/16/2009 - Nothing in the mail yet...

- 11/18/2009 - NOA1 x3 for AOS/I-130/I-765 received

- 11/26/2009 - Received Biometrics appt for 12/16/2009

- 12/01/2009 - Biometrics done (Walk-in)

- 12/02/2009 - Touched (I-485/I-765) from Biometrics Walk-in

- 12/07/2009 - RFE (I-485/I-765) wrong Affidavit of Support (needed I-864, not I-134)

- 01/04/2010 - Mailed updated information

- 01/07/2010 - Pkg rec'd @ USCIS (I-485 touched, I-765 not touched)

- 01/08/2010 - I-485 touched

- 01/22/2010 - NOA for interview 02/23/2010 (no changes to online notifications & no EAD)

- 01/29/2010 - EAD production ordered

- 02/01/2010 - EAD touched

- 02/03/2010 - EAD received

- 02/23/2010 - Interview done (whew) - APPROVED DURING INTERVIEW

- 03/05/2010 - GC received in mail

DIVORCE/ROC

- 03/30/2011 - Separated

- 10/04/2011 - Filed for Divorce

- 11/23/2011 - 90-day Period for ROC Starts

- 12/06/2011 - First Divorce Hearing

- 01/24/2012 - Divorce Granted (8 weeks to get Certificate of Divorce)

- 02/15/2012 - Filed I-751 (sent by FedEx), Received & signed for 02/16/2012 by D. Renaud)

- 02/17/2012 - Receipt notice from USCIS

- 02/23/2012 - GC EXPIRES

- 11/21/2012 - ROC approved, GC production ordered

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NigeriaorBust Grand Master

NigeriaorBust   4,087

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Until you receive the EAD you aren't authorized to work. If you work before it arrives your whole package could be denied. Will it be , who knows. But working without authorization is a risk that I wouldn't want to take

This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.

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SunDrop   59

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Sounds like you're adjusting from an L visa? If you no longer work for the company that you obtained a visa through and therefore DHS work authorization (namely your permission to work was for a specific company) then you are not allowed to work until your EAD is granted.

Hard to advise without knowing what you're adjusting from...

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K-1/K-2 NOA1 - POE: 9 February - 9 July 2010

Married: 17 July 2010

AOS mailed - Interview : 22 November 2010 - 10 March 2011

ROC mailed - approved: 14 February - 18 June 2013

Citizenship mailed - ceremony: 9 February - 7 June 2017

 

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NickD   202

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Sounds like you're adjusting from an L visa? If you no longer work for the company that you obtained a visa through and therefore DHS work authorization (namely your permission to work was for a specific company) then you are not allowed to work until your EAD is granted.

Hard to advise without knowing what you're adjusting from...

Never would get a job in Wisconsin, SS cards are no longer accepted as proof of USC or being a LPR, and the employer risks getting a $16,000 fine if hires an illegal. This varies state by state, it's a hardship imposed by the USCIS, not only with their excessively high fees, but those excessively long processing dates. Even though they have your money and a ton of evidence, still takes forever. If the USCIS didn't play with us for months, my step daughter could have obtained her USC through her mother as we met all the other requirements. But because they took forever, she turned 18 so another 675 bucks and a two year wait for her.

Illegals seem to get by here by shoveling sidewalks, cutting grass, raking leaves, and cleaning homes, all on a cash basis, but this is however, not a suggestion.

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lady-alone Apprentice

lady-alone   0

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Thanks for all the replies everyone...we've managed to get a loan from my parents to help us get by (not really something I want to be doing, but can't risk the repercussions). I am adjusting from an O status which is entirely different and am now lost in the immigration process. Makes me really upset that the USA can an unemployment rate that is over 10% yet for those who want to work and who are being offered jobs can't because of red-tape....common sense is clearly not a requirement in this process!

truckerlove

- 08/29/2009 - Married

- 09/15/2009 - Medical Examination

- 11/06/2009 - Couriered AOS/I-130/I-765 (package)

- 11/09/2009 - Package Arrived @ Chicago, IL USCIS

- 11/16/2009 - Nothing in the mail yet...

- 11/18/2009 - NOA1 x3 for AOS/I-130/I-765 received

- 11/26/2009 - Received Biometrics appt for 12/16/2009

- 12/01/2009 - Biometrics done (Walk-in)

- 12/02/2009 - Touched (I-485/I-765) from Biometrics Walk-in

- 12/07/2009 - RFE (I-485/I-765) wrong Affidavit of Support (needed I-864, not I-134)

- 01/04/2010 - Mailed updated information

- 01/07/2010 - Pkg rec'd @ USCIS (I-485 touched, I-765 not touched)

- 01/08/2010 - I-485 touched

- 01/22/2010 - NOA for interview 02/23/2010 (no changes to online notifications & no EAD)

- 01/29/2010 - EAD production ordered

- 02/01/2010 - EAD touched

- 02/03/2010 - EAD received

- 02/23/2010 - Interview done (whew) - APPROVED DURING INTERVIEW

- 03/05/2010 - GC received in mail

DIVORCE/ROC

- 03/30/2011 - Separated

- 10/04/2011 - Filed for Divorce

- 11/23/2011 - 90-day Period for ROC Starts

- 12/06/2011 - First Divorce Hearing

- 01/24/2012 - Divorce Granted (8 weeks to get Certificate of Divorce)

- 02/15/2012 - Filed I-751 (sent by FedEx), Received & signed for 02/16/2012 by D. Renaud)

- 02/17/2012 - Receipt notice from USCIS

- 02/23/2012 - GC EXPIRES

- 11/21/2012 - ROC approved, GC production ordered

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Brother Hesekiel   2,235

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I understand your concern, but I disagree, as working illegally is automatically forgiven and not even an issue at AOS. The one thing you can't do, however, is to claim being a USC.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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rebeccajo   14

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Thanks for all the replies everyone...we've managed to get a loan from my parents to help us get by (not really something I want to be doing, but can't risk the repercussions). I am adjusting from an O status which is entirely different and am now lost in the immigration process. Makes me really upset that the USA can an unemployment rate that is over 10% yet for those who want to work and who are being offered jobs can't because of red-tape....common sense is clearly not a requirement in this process!

truckerlove

Everybody who wants to work in the US has to prove they legally can.

And with unemployment as high as it is, only those who can legally work should get those jobs.

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