About a hundred thousand Indian spouses, predominantly women, possess an EAD, granting them the ability to work or be self-employed. Official data from December 2017 indicates that 84,360 Indian spouses held an EAD, constituting 93% of all EADs issued.
In an effort to reduce extreme immigration processing delays and ever growing backlogs, and to provide relief to work permit holders, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).