Completing Form I-9: Employees With Extended Work Permit for DACA Extensions and Extensions for Permanent Resident Cards Thursday, March 4, 2021
Applicants for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) receive a work permit in the form of the Employment Authorization Document (EAD), which is subject to timely renewal. Owing to COVID-19, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is facing substantial delay in processing EAD applications. DACA recipients were in limbo, as the delay in processing threw them out of work. To remedy this situation, the USCIS, on January 21, 2021, issued a release advising employees how to handle this situation for the purposes of completing Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Now, employees can use their expired EAD card along with the I-797 Extension Notice for verification as a valid work permit.