""They're now saying, ostensibly, we want you to wait a year and a half. You're more than doubling the time that the person has to wait," said Amy Leipziger, project director at the Urban Justice Center's Free to Be Youth Project."
""USCIS also expects that, upon implementation of this rule, new [Employment Authorization Document] applications for pending asylum applicants would be paused for an extended period, possibly many years," reads the rule."
""Without factoring in any of the other proposed changes in this rule and how they may impact adjudication times, it may take between 14 and 173 years to reach a 180-day processing time for work authorization applications.""
The Department of Homeland Security's proposed rule aims to extend the waiting period for work permits for asylum seekers from six months to a year. This change also increases the processing time for work authorization applications from 30 to 180 days. Advocates argue that this policy discourages asylum applications and could lead to significant delays in work authorization, exacerbating existing backlogs. USCIS acknowledges that the implementation of this rule may result in extended pauses for new Employment Authorization Document applications for pending asylum applicants.
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