Protections for Asylees
and Refugees
Work
Authorization Automatic for Asylees. The
new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced
that it concurs with a June 2002 opinion that asylees/refugees
are authorized to work whether or not they have INS-issued
work authorization documents.
State
Letter on Employment Eligibility Requirements.
The HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Office of
Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment
Practices (OSC) have prepared a State Letter to provide
information on employment eligibility requirements for asylees,
refugees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, and certain other
groups. This State Letter provides: (1) background information
on employment eligibility in the United States; (2) an overview
of the work of OSC; (3) an overview of the I-9 Employment
Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9); and, (4)answers
to frequently asked employment eligibility questions from
ORR-assisted populations. Full
Text (html).
U.S. Department of Justice -- Executive Office for Immigration Review