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Mar. 17, 2015

New work permission rules on the way for some spouses

Starting May 26, the USCIS will begin to accept applications to issue employment authorization documents to some spouses of foreign professionals temporarily employed in the U.S. By C. Matthew Sculz


By C. Matthew Schulz


Starting May 26, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (USCIS) will begin to accept applications to issue employment authorization documents (EAD) to some spouses of foreign professionals temporarily employed in the U.S. This could affect thousands of spouses of H-1B workers - so-called "H-4 spouses" - across the country.


This new permission to work, stemming from an executive order the president issued in N...

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