Career Center
Required Employment Eligibility Documents
To comply with federal law, the Career Center must verify your identity and eligibility to work in the United States before you can work on campus. At your first appointment with the Career Center, you must show
  • one document from list A or
  • one document from list B and one document from list C.  The documents must be originals, not copies. The only exception is that you may use a certified copy of a birth certificate.


List A
Documents That Establish Both Identity and Employment Eligibility

  • U.S. Passport (unexpired or expired)
  • Permanent Resident card or Alien Registration Receipt card (Form I-551)
  • An unexpired foreign passport with a temporary I-551 stamp
  • An unexpired Employment Authorization Document that contains a photograph (Form I-766, I-688, I-688A, I-688B) 
  • An unexpired foreign passport with an unexpired Arrival-Departure Record, Form I-94, bearing the same name as the passport and containing an endorsement of the alien's nonimmigrant status, if that status authorizes the alien to work for the employer


List B
Documents That Establish Identity

  • Driver's license or ID card issued by a state or outlying possession of the United States provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color, and address
  • ID card issued by federal, state, or local government agencies or entities, provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color and address
  • School ID card with a photograph
  • Voter's registration card
  • U.S. military card or draft record
  • Military dependent's ID card
  • U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner card
  • Native American tribal document
  • Driver's license issued by a Canadian government authority


Persons under the age of 18 who are unable to produce one of the above documents can substitute one of the following:

  • School record or report card
  • Clinic, doctor, or hospital record
  • Day-care or nursery school record


List C
Documents That Establish Employment Eligibility

  • U.S. Social Security card issued by the Social Security Administration (other than a card stating that it is not valid for employment)
  • Certification of Birth Abroad issued by the Department of State (Form FS-545 or Form DS-1350)
  • Original or certified copy of a birth certificate issued by a state, county, municipal authority or outlying possession of the United States bearing an official seal
  • Native American tribal document
  • U.S. Citizen ID card (INS Form I-197)
  • ID card for use of Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179)
  • Unexpired employment authorization document issued by DHS (other than those listed in List A)