Changing Employer on AC21

[GC_EAD]

Hello Friends,

 

I appreciate If immigration experts can advise me:

 

My priority date is March 2010 EB2.

I currently have EAD and AP.

I am working with my GC sponsoring employer and working on various client assignments.

I am looking for another consulting assignment and the IT vendors are preferring me to work on their W2. How much is it risky to work with another consulting company on their W2 with an EAD.

I am either preferring to stay with my employer until I get GC or join the end client for a full time. Does my preference makes sense?

Thanks for reading.

 

[obscurenessmoon]

How much is it risky to work with another consulting company on their W2 with an EAD.

 

- If you are asking about working for that consulting company, then the answer is how would one know. If you are asking about the process, yes that is allowed.

 

I am either preferring to stay with my employer until I get GC or join the end client for a full time. Does my preference makes sense?

- The OR clause threw me off. should it be AND?

[Attorney_20]

You may want to discuss your situation in detail with an immigration attorney but generally, as long as the I-485 remains pending or is approved (and not denied), there is very little risk to falling out of nonimmigrant status by using your EAD to work.

[zoomzipper]

If you want to join another consulting company, ask them if they can give an offer letter listing the salary, title and job duties. Job duties must be similar to those in your PERM. The offer letter should not say its a "contract" job. Most contracting companies will not give such a letter.  If you are joining the end client, ask them if they can give such a letter. 

[Attorney_15]

The Green Card including the I-485 requires a single full-time job that you will work in on becoming a permanent resident. So you can work multiple jobs of various amounts of time while the I-485 is pending but you have to be able to identify what is the single full-time job offer that is the basis for your I-485 to be approved and that you will work in becoming a Permanent Resident. If that job is not the one sponsored on the I-140 then it must be same or similar to what is on the I-140. 

[GC_EAD]

Hello,

 

I recently got an offer from an employer (similar job) and will be using AC 21 to change my employer. I will be leaving my GC sponsoring employer and soon starting new employment with the other employer.

 

I appreciate If someone can answer my questions:

 

1. When do I need to ask the new employer If they can file the letter to USCIS regarding my AC21 utilization to join them?

Before joining them or after joining them?  And How soon?

2. Is there any reason they won't accept to file such letters? 

3. Where can I find the job duties that were filed as part of my GC LC?  Is it in the LC application or the LC advertisement?

4. What is the procedure if I want to change the attorney on my pending 485? What are the benefits if i retain my older employer attorney? (old employer accepts that.)

 

Thank you.