EAD application with h4 extenaion receipt

[GeeDee]

Hi

I have my I140 approved and 4 months back I applied for extension for my H1B visa and my wife's H4 visa .It is still under process and yet to be approved, so we have only the extension receipt documents with us. Today a colleague told me that I could have applied for the EAD for my wife along with our extension documents and in that case her EAD would have come along with the h4 extension approval. Is this a valid scenario ? If so did I miss the opportunity to file the EAD and now  do I have to wait until both of our extensions get approved in hand ? Or can I apply for her EAD now with the extension receipt so that our extension documents and EAD gets approved together. kindly reply.

[pratima99]

While this may not answer your question ,I was wondering why you did not take advantage of the premium processing ?

[vicky20]

Applying together is a better idea, Recommend waiting otherwise because the ead card may be valid only as long as your h1 is, resulting in applying again. Let's say you get 3 more years of h1 approved then the EAD card applied with that 797 would have 3 yrs. see page 5: here: https://www.uscis.gov/system/files_force/files/form/i-765instr.pdf?download=1