3.0.0 1899 2023-01-11T13:30:01Z 2023-01-11T13:30:01Z Senate S 2015-07-30 114 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-07-30T14:44:32Z Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2015 114 3814 HR 2015-11-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. Identical bill CRS 2015-07-30 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2015-07-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. N Immigration Foreign labor Immigration status and procedures Refugees, asylum, displaced persons Immigration 00 2015-07-30 Introduced in Senate 2015-09-04T20:37:35Z Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2015

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Department of Homeland Security to authorize employment for an asylum applicant who is not in detention and whose asylum application has not been determined to be frivolous.

Employment authorization shall be: (1) for a period of one year, and (2) renewable for additional one-year periods for the entire period necessary to adjudicate the applicant's asylum claim.

]]> Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2015 Display Title Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to permit aliens seeking asylum to be eligible for employment in the United States and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1899is/xml/BILLS-114s1899is.xml 2015-07-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.