We don’t know yet – if anything passes, we will need to see the language, but the biggest bill (introduced in January 2021) would seemingly benefit asylum seekers. That bill is unlikely to pass, but we shall see. Take care, Jason

Please will pending asylum seekers benifts from the pending immigration reform ? in case it’s passed bu the House, Thanks.

I know what you mean, but for me, it is manageable and I think people would rather have a direct answer from a human instead of looking it up on a FAQ page or something similar (as a confirmed member of the Old School, I prefer that myself). Take care, Jason

It’s just amazing…I mean help me understand…

It just seems that we live in different worlds: some people don’t seem to have such issue, and I know a lot of people who don’t, and even people who don’t have a pending asylum applications seem to live fine (we have 11-12 million undocumented folks around). On the other hand, several in here get constantly bothered by this: denied job opportunity, disputes with HR personnel, even some could do FOIA without one’s consent…I mean…what’s going on here ? Why such great difference ?

It’s really hard to understand because the regulation is really clear: if you have a pending asylum application and you have a work permit, then you can legally work. Simple as that, it’s just unfathomable there could be many issues…

One positive ask here. Could there be certain regional/industrial differences ? Like is it because asylum seekers are in the wrong area or wrong industry or what ?

Have never had such an issue.
If you’re asked about your documents (and you have an EAD), tell that you have employment documents and aren’t required any sponsorship. That’s enough.

Fee waived means approval

Jason,
We\you keep getting the same questions over and over again, people do not want to check previous entries even it is so easy to find it, even it will not take more than ten minutes even it is what they need.
I do not know how many pages, I have gone through just to learn more about others’ experiences. and there is amazing information here in all these posts in addition to your initial submission.

Yet still, I do not understand why some asylum seekers (I will call them free rider) are so …….. not to follow up and inform us about the result after they got their answer. They are disappearing from the scene and not sharing their experiences even do not showing the minimum courtesy of answering others’ questions just for the sake of kindness….
You are such a great person that you keep typing the same response over and over again.
Here just to decrease the burden on your shoulder; would it be a different storage strategy possible for you to try. You know typical forum websites that has themes and topics with categorization. Do you think you can transform this forum to one of them? or an other solution from the IT, computer folks who knows better than me; Problem here as you understand- grouping the relevant conversation and having a pinned answer from Jason for the future inquiries … you understand what I mean…

See, I am too superstitious to say this….

Some people here say that is good news (that it means fees for the asylum-granted EAD are waiver). I think you have to remain cautious and wait for the letter. Hopefully you will get good news soon. Take care, Jason

I think you are still only required to tell your employer 1) you are legally able to work 2) you don’t need sponsorship and nothing more.

Did the employer ask anything else ?