Hi, my wife is currently on F-1 and is working. She applied for H4 (I-539) and the receipt notice date is June 2021. She also applied for H4 EAD separately and the receipt date is September 2021. Question: If you are on F-1 and apply for H4 and H4 EAD separately, what happens if your H4 gets approved while the H4 EAD application stays pending? Are you legally allowed to continue working on F-1 and update to H4 EAD later or do you have to leave your job till the time H4 EAD is approved? Can someone who is having knowledge share more information on this? #workvisa #h1b
Please talk to lawyer who helped applied for H4 which I assumed would be your company.
Leave job and wait till ead is approved
Has anyone tried combining h4 and h4 ead applications after filing ?
You can file them together. Most of the times it will get approved/rejected together. But you should be ready for worst case scenario where h4 gets approved and ead is still pending
Already filed seperately last year. Its crazy. Last year they were having 12 months wait time and now they have decreased it to 4-5 months. Has anyone tried calling them ?
I had this with my wife. She had to stop working the moment her visa converted to h4. She was allowed to work only after she received her h4 ead.