Work Permit Denied? USCIS Shares Details on EAD Processing During Stakeholder Call
A form I-765 is used to request an employment authorization document (EAD). There are currently 625,000 I-765 applications waiting to be adjudicated and 394,000 are actively pending. If USCIS needs more information pertaining to an individual's I-765 application, they will issue a request for evidence (RFE). USCIS is currently waiting for responses from 19,000 I-765 applications that were RFE’d. Applicants must submit all documents that were requested from an RFE prior to hav