DHS releases final rule on 540-day automatic EAD extension for certain applicantsRelease Date: 10-Dec-2024

DHS releases final rule on 540-day automatic EAD extension for certain applicants

Release Date: 10-Dec-2024

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced final rule making the 540-day automatic EAD extension period permanent for certain eligible EAD renewal applicants.

The final rule will become effective on January 13, 2025, and will apply to eligible applicants with timely filed renewal EAD applications pending or filed on or after May 4, 2022.

This final rule will help U.S. employers retain their workers and help prevent workers with timely-filed EAD renewal applications from experiencing lapses in their employment authorization and employment authorization documentation through no fault of their own.

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This final rule aligns with USCIS’ ongoing efforts to support eligible individuals’ ability to work and contribute to the U.S. economy. In addition to today’s final rule, USCIS has taken a number of steps to reduce EAD processing times overall and streamlined adjudication processing, including:

1. Reducing by half the median EAD processing times for individuals with pending applications for adjustment of status from fiscal year 2021 to date;

2. Engaging with communities to educate work-eligible individuals and providing on-the-ground intake support for applicants;

3. Reducing EAD application processing times for asylum applicants and certain hashtag#parolees to less than or equal to a 30-day median;

4. Extending the EAD validity period for certain categories of applicants from two years to five years;

5. Streamlining the processing of refugee EAD applications; and

6. Expanding online filing of EAD applications to hashtag#asylum applicants and parolees.

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