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