US Ends Automatic EAD Extensions, Impacting Indian Immigrants

Imagine you have a special pass that lets you work in the United States, and this pass has an expiration date.

Usually, if you applied to get a new pass before the old one expired, you could keep working even if the new pass wasn't ready yet.

This used to give you extra time, up to 540 days, to wait for the new pass.

Now, the U.S. government has stopped this automatic extra time.

If your work pass expires and your renewal application is still being processed, you can no longer automatically keep working.

This change especially affects Indian immigrants, like spouses of H-1B visa holders, because they often have to wait a very long time for their permanent residency, and this extra work time was very important for them.

Without it, they might have to stop working, and companies might not wait for them to get their new pass.