Since the 1990s, U.S. law has allowed immigration officials to grant work permits to asylum applicants if their cases have been pending for at least 180 days.

U.S. law allows asylum-seekers to apply for a work permit 150 days after claiming asylum. The person would not be allowed to work prior to 180 days from claiming asylum, however, which is six months.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s work permit, issued during the Biden administration, was expired when he allegedly carried out a suspected terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.

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Federal law requires asylum seekers to wait 150 days before being considered for a work permit. That timeline is exacerbated further because of backlogs in the approval system.

Without a work permit, some may be unable to get driver’s licenses, health insurance or other critical benefits on top of their unemployment. They also face a backlog in processing their overall ...

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Ukrainians and Afghans who receive humanitarian parole can work the moment they arrive in the U.S. For Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, the wait to legally work can take many months.

This is a good bill. Let’s let those kids get to work.” Most of House Bill 5159 works by marking out portions of existing law detailing work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-olds.