ikehasu

Hi, everybody.
I have been in USA over 2 weeks so far. I just wonder how to open bank account and work in USA?

I haven't apply for SS card yet, and we are marrying in August.
My friend who lives in USA said that I wan not allowed to work until I got a working permit which was different from what I had known.

Also, I have to pay enormous money for my schooling like foreign students do if I go to school before getting the Green Card. Is that true?

How long doe it take until get a working permit after we get married?

All you have a nice day!!

Ray

Take this form to a Social security office and get your SN
http://www.ssa.gov/online/ss-5fs.html

after marriage..one of the forms you file will be for a work permit

Noorah101

You came on a K-1 visa. That is helpful for others to know.

Did you come through JFK and get the temp EAD stamp? If so, you are work authorized right now.

Fill out the form Ray posted, take it to your local SS office, along with your passport, K-1 visa, and I-94. Your SS card should come in the mail within 2 weeks.

After you get married and apply for AOS, one of the forms is I-765, which is for your employment authorization document. The EAD takes about 90 days to receive after applying.

In the meantime, you should be able to open a US bank account. You just need to show your passport as ID.

Rene

ikehasu

What is the JFK?
You mean the EAD stamp on my passport?

Noorah101

JFK = John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

Did you get an EAD stamp in your passport when you came to the USA? If you did, then you are work authorized right now, for your first 90 days here.

Rene

ikehasu

No, I came through Michigan Airport.
I have just checked my passport which has a Admitted DMA stemp.

Duncan Roberts

Looks like no work for you until sometime around November.

ikehasu

Why November?
Is it because I was unlucky or because they has changed their rules?

meauxna

The stamp isn't put in your passport, it's on the back of your I-94 card, stapled into your passport. If you have it, it would say 'employment authorized'.

If you do not have a card with that stamp, you need an Employment Authorization Document/EAD, which you apply for with form I-765.
Now, you MAY apply for one as a K-1. However, the document will be valid ONLY for the 90 day K-1 admission.
That document takes about 90 days to receive, from application. When you do the math, you see the problem.

After you marry and are applying for your Adjustment of Status/AOS, you may also apply for an EAD based on THAT application (different code than for K-1).
That EAD is valid for one year, and takes about 90 days to receive, from application.

Noorah101

Not sure what a DMA stamp is.

So you will be work authorized once you marry, file AOS, and receive your EAD in the mail.

November, because you will be married in August, file AOS sometime in August (we assume), and it takes 90 days to get your EAD from that time. That makes it November.

Rene

meauxna

I'm gonna guess.... Detroit Metro Airport?

Noorah101

hahaha...duh! Sadegh and I just came through there, I should look at my our passports and see what we got stamped!

ikehasu

Thank you buys.
I checked the I-94 card on my passport and I don't have EAD stemp on it.

Noorah101

That's not unusual. I believe JFK in New York is the only POE (point of entry) which gives out the temp EAD stamp now.

Rene