<p>@juliuscesar. Employment is not allowed if you don't have a social security number and labor card. When you apply for a green card, you first have to apply for labor card/social security, once that is approved, you get the social security number and a labor card, meaning you can legally work in the united states. With the approval of labor card, then you can continue apply for green card.</p>
<p>I have a social security number and a labor card. I have been working at Hollister Inc. for almost three months now. My green card is pending. I also have an alien registration number.</p>
<p>I believe you and your family have social security since your father decided to go EAD route and abandoned H1b to adjust status in the United States.. If you read the link above and understand it carefully, you are not on H4 visa anymore but you are considered an adjustee. As you know, the EAD route is very tricky as explained by the immigration lawyer above but a very crafted and carefully prepared application for adjustment of status can help in a successful green card application. There's two ways to adjust status. The first one is to continue with H1b and the second one is the EAD employment authorization. The moment your dad chose EAD employment authorization, the whole family abandoned non immigrant intent. I believe if you become a parolee, you then are qualified for federal financial aid. You have to have a stamp on you I-94.</p>
<p>I believe you and your family have social security since your father decided to go EAD route and abandoned H1b to adjust status in the United States.. If you read the link above and understand it carefully, you are not on H4 visa anymore but you are considered an adjustee. As you know, the EAD route is very tricky as explained by the immigration lawyer above but a very crafted and carefully prepared application for adjustment of status can help in a successful green card application. There's two ways to adjust status. The first one is to continue with H1b and the second one is the EAD employment authorization. The moment your dad chose EAD employment authorization, the whole family abandoned non immigrant intent. I believe if you become a parolee, you then are qualified for federal financial aid. You have to have a stamp on you I-94.</p>
<p>^Because permanent residents don't need one. They can go in and out of country with their green cards. Since my family doesn't have the green cards in hand, we MUST have the travel document to go in and out of country.</p>
<p>Well, that's kind of what my point was. superdrive021 seemed to refer to a "US travel document" as a US passport, which neither you nor permanent residents nor international students have. Your "travel document" only allows you to enter the country, which is exactly what a visa does for international students and a green card for permanent residents.</p>
<p>Maybe I misunderstood superdrive021, but he/she seemed to imply that you were "above" an international student because you had US travel documents. I just wanted to point out that I didn't quite follow that logic because your travel documents are not fundamentally different from the travel documents international students get.</p>
<p>As i said, their family opted for the EAD employment authorization route for adjustment of status which means they abandoned the non immigrant intent of the H1b and H4 visa. Before they travel outside of the US, they'll have to apply and get approve for "Advance Parole". If they don't, more likely they're not gonna be able to get in at the port of entry.</p>
<p>Lots of people with non-immigrant visas have work permission and social security cards and DON'T have permanent residence. Anyone who works legally in the US has to have a SSN because of filing taxes. </p>
<p>I expect that the "travel document" under discussion here is a Reentry Permit. These are issued by the US government in a number of cases, among them (but not necessarily limited to):
a) individuals legally in the US who need to travel outside the US but who can't or don't want to travel with a passport issued by their country of citizenship,
and
b) US Permanent Residents who will be living and working in another country for an extended period of time (up to 2 years), but who want to maintain their Permanent Resident status.</p>
<p>wis3ly -</p>
<p>Personally, I think you need to round up all of your immigration documents and pay a visit to the international admissions office at the college/university/community college closest to you. If the officer who looks at them says "I have no idea what to do in this case.", ask if he/she has any idea who does know, and then get in touch with that person. You may also want to take some of your hard-earned money and go visit an immigration lawyer. If your long-term goal is to remain in the US, you certainly do not want to make any mistakes that will jeopardize your chance of getting Permanent Residence status!</p>
<p>^ They obviously don't want to be habouring illegals in their dorms, or accidentally give them federal or subsidized financial aid. Will get them into a lot of legal trouble, haha.</p>
<p>"But they also don't issue travel documents to permanent residents..."</p>
<p>They do. It's called Reentry Permit. It's valid for 2 years. It's for those who don't have passports from their own countries, and for those who plan to leave U.S. for more than one year, but less than two.</p>
<p>Greetings, W. My son and I both hold Green Cards and have been in the US since 2003. We have not had the final Permanent Resident status long enough to naturalize as citizens. But here's what we've discovered, and maybe it will assist you:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Each University's board of regents devise its respective residency classification policy, and some are more stringent (and possibly unconstitutional) than others. Collegeboard has general guidelines for each state, but some U's elect to do something different (see below.)</p></li>
<li><p>In the case of the University of Michigan, (don't know about Penn) the burden of proof is on the student to supply evidence of "severance of ties" with one's former country in order to support the "permanency intent" of the state "domicile." In the case of UM, they do NOT define what criteria that evidence needs to meet, just that a) attending school in MI; b) working in MI; c) owning property in MI; and d) paying taxes in MI do NOT "necessarily" comprise the intent or establishment of "domicile."</p></li>
<li><p>My suggestion: make copies of your adjustment of status docket info, employment, tax returns, parents tax return, property owned, assets held. Write an outline showing that your adjustment of status establishes your family's intent to PERMANENTLY reside in state. If you call the registrar's office, they should have a form that will guide you through the submission of these documents. Best to do so now, even while green card is pending (which, BTW, they'll want a copy of it...if you have a AOJ stamp in your passport, submit photocopy of that now too). At UM we've now been waiting 8 weeks for them to "decide" our matter, despite how straightforward we feel our particular case is.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Good luck! Don't let your status make you feel unwelcome (which it did to my son). Just sail on past that red tape : )
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>If you don't have a green card, you are not legally a "permanent resident" and should be considered an "international" for admission purposes. Check however directly with the schools you are applying to in order to clarify your status.</p>
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You are not international if you have a social security number. Only legal U.S. residents have a social security number.
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<p>That is not true. International students who live in the US under F-1 visas are not permanent residents, but can apply for and often have SSN's. When those same students have to file taxes though, they must do so using a "non-resident alien" form (I know because I had to do it as a PhD student !).</p>
<p>Being considered international for financial aid is a very specific thing. Basically, FAFSA makes that determination. For those colleges that do not have need blind admissions for internationals or who have limited aid for internationals, that is what makes the difference. Getting a loan as student without a co-signer is a big problem. If your parents could take out the loan or can afford to pay, that would be a different story. You can be international with a social security number. My mother is a non resident alien with a social security number. There are a number of situations where you can have a social security number and be international, including getting one while a resident and then not keeping the residency. My friend who is married to a diplomat has a ssn and is allowed to work in the US, but she is definitely an international. When her son applied to college, they needed to get a special visa for him to be considered a resident. Don't even know if anyone/everyone can get that. It is not automatic just for working in the US.</p>
<p>Indeed.
I'm bumping this because a few posts have been brought up about this.</p>
<p>If you live in the US but do not have a greencard or US Citizenship, you are international if you ask for aid. If you do not ask for aid, you will be considered domestic.
Of course, that doesn't apply to the 5 Need Blind Schools for Internationals, which are YALE, PRINCETON, HARVARD, MIDDLEBURY, AND WILLIAMS.</p>
<p>Other colleges are need aware and can reject you simply if they can't afford you.
I found that out the hard way during this year's ED round when I applied to Penn. I was outright rejected because I asked for aid. I talked to my regional director and he said I would have gotten in had I 1) had a green card with my stats.
But if I hadn't asked for aid, I would have at least been deffered until I got my greencard later next year.</p>
<p>And as to the OP, if you only applied for your I-130 last year, then you won't get it for like 4-5 years due to the visa backlog just fyi.</p>
<p>I have an even more complicated situation..</p>
<p>I am a Canadian citizen.
I've lived in Texas for the past 3 years.
I currently hold a H4 visa.
I do not have a social security number and I'm not permitted to work in the US.</p>
<p>My family's application for permanent residence (green card) has been approved, but not yet issued. I will not be a permanent resident yet when I enroll in a university next fall.</p>
<p>Some schools that I'm applying to (Washington, Illinois, etc.) require a Statement of Financial Responsibility or Declaration and Certification of Finance, which is "federal regulations required" and requires information regarding sources of financial support. However, on the form provided by Illinois, it states that the form is only required if the student needs a F-1 visa. I'm pretty sure that I do not need a F-1 visa as my H4 visa permits studying in the US. </p>
<p>Am I considered an International Applicant? Will I be able to receive federal financial aid?</p>