{"id":15611,"date":"2025-12-15T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:16:56","slug":"dhs-ends-automatic-ead-extensions-for-many-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/2025\/12\/15\/dhs-ends-automatic-ead-extensions-for-many-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Ends Automatic EAD Extensions for Many Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 30,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/10\/30\/2025-19702\/removal-of-the-automatic-extension-of-employment-authorization-documents\" data-name=\"DHS ended\" data-type=\"url\">DHS ended<\/a>\u00a0the automatic 540-day extension of many Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for renewal. Applicants must now wait for USCIS approval before work authorization continues.\u00a0<i>This rule does not affect STEM OPT or TPS extensions<\/i>. Since this took effect as an Interim Final Rule without a comment period, it may face legal challenges and could cause staffing disruptions across industries. Please contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hr.vanderbilt.edu\/employee-immigration-services\/\" data-name=\"OIS\" data-type=\"url\">OIS<\/a> with questions or if an employee may be impacted. Find more information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klaskolaw.com\/automatic-ead-renewals-ended\/\" data-name=\"here\" data-type=\"url\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 30,\u00a0DHS ended\u00a0the automatic 540-day extension of many Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for renewal. Applicants must now wait for USCIS approval before work authorization continues.\u00a0This rule does not affect STEM OPT or TPS extensions. Since this took effect as an Interim Final Rule without a comment period, it may face legal challenges and could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}