[GC] 労働許可書が届く／EAD arrived

来たあぁぁぁ〜。昨日４月２９日火曜日に無事に労働許可書（EAD) が郵送されました。これで首になっても働ける〜（笑）午後に郵送の旨を伝えるアップデートのメールが来たので、今週末か来週には届くかな？なんて考えてたら同日に届いたのでこれにはビックリ。

カードは大学卒業後にもらったOPTとほぼ同じ。違う点は顔写真が前向き（OPTは斜め横向きだった）なのと指紋がカードに直接印刷されているところかな？一安心・・・

いままでEADが届いたら事務所に引っ越しの旨を伝えようと思案していたのにも関わらず、なぜかイキナリ怖じけずいてます。アパートの契約をあと２ヶ月延ばしたから６月末までは居るので、言うのは早すぎるかなあなんて考えてます。前に数人辞表２週間前に出したのにも関わらず、２週間経つ前に事務所追い出されているの見ているから、なんとなく同様な扱いされるのではないかと多少不安なのでもあるんだけれど。・・・まあ事務所の置かれている状況が違うと言えば違ったりもするんだけど。でもやっぱ不安になるじゃん？！？

やっぱ、面接終わってからにしようかなあ？どうせその時点で１ヶ月もあるんだし。同僚がガッカリすると思うと切り出しづらいのもあるんだよね。う〜ん。悩む・・・

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I got an employment authorization card (EAD) on Tuesday, April 29th (funny thing is that on the same date, I got an update email telling me that EAD has been mailed out o the same date...). I can find a job at ANYWHERE even if I get fired tomorrow!! This such a nice change since for the past 5 years, I was only arrowed to work for an employer who sponsored my visa!

This is a quite step up for me since I've moved in the States. Back in high school, I couldn't work at all due to my visa status. Then in college, I was allowed to work only on campus, selections of jobs were very very very limited... so did $$ I could earned. After college, I worked as a freelancer for 3 months with OPT until I moved to Kentucky for a job with H1-B visa even though I wanted to move to a larger city just like my friends did...

Now I'm no longer bound to my visa status, nor have to worry about my visa is going to expire (current visa will expire January of 2009)!! It's such a nice feeling that I don't really have to worry about needing to move back to Japan in a case something happen to my job...

yay!