Employment authorization document

It's, but, uh, very, very unlikely.

Tumbleweed's asked, "After EAD is approved, the work permit, how long should I wait to apply for a Social Security number?" Uh, it's not a...

The way they made it before Trump was as soon as the work permit was approved, they would have mailed your Social Security number card.

You should wait a week or, a week, and then contact or go to an appointment with the Social Security office to get it as soon as possible to get your life up and running.

Under the old framework.

Basically, a state driver's licensing agency, an SDLA, would issue a non-domiciled CDL if a driver just presented an unexpired employment authorization document.

The EAD.

Exactly.

The EAD.

And that EAD acted as a very broad umbrella.

It essentially told the state clerk, hey, this person is allowed to work in the United States.

And based on that really broad permission, the state would just issue the commercial credential.

Its only concern is an EAD administrability one, which the agency connected to safety in the rule.

When she says EADs, she's talking about employment authorization documents that specify a time period for legal work stay in the country.

Mismatch between those dates and CDL expiration being a big part of FCSA's reasoning for the non-domiciled CDL rules eligibility restrictions.

So the agency said that its purported EAD administrability concern was a safety one.

And that's what it said in the rule.

And in its brief, it says that EAD administrability does not directly implicate safety, nor could it, because the state that the agency calls out as its most egregious example of EAD administrability issues, New York, in fact, has one of the lowest fatal crash rates in the country.

And so with no safety justification, the agency nonetheless decided to exclude DACA recipients and many others with EADs, which can't be matched up to the agency's perfect safety basis for the rule.

So I take the problem with EADs to be in part this Mexico, Canada, that there were States granting ND licenses to people who were nationals of Canada and Mexico present here.