Can a person work in the US with a spouse visa?

if you enter the US on an IR-1 or CR-1 immigrant visa, you're processed for a green card and a social security number at entry. it does take several months to get the green card though. So, yes a person who enters on a spouse visa can work. The k-3 is a non-immigrant visa and rarely used anymore. if a person entered on a K-3, they'd have to file an I-485 for adjustment of status to get the green card. that takes a bit longer and there's a $1,000 fee as well.

The spouse visa grants your spouse the right to travel to the USA and take up permanent residency.

She enters on the spouse visa. On entry they give her a form to mail in for her

Green Card.

After you and she find a place to live, she sends in the form, and about a month later her Green Card, demonstrating she has permission for permanent residency arrives in the mail.

As a permanent resident, she not only have permission to live in the USA, but ALSO to work here..

To summarize. The spouse visa allows her to enter and she is already approved for permanent residency.

The Green Card is proof of her permanent residency permission.

Best

Fred Wahl

VisaCoach

If you have a spousal visa CR1 you get a green cards after entry to the US and you can work

spousal visa CR1

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/type...

the k3 is pretty much obsolete

http://www.workpermit.com/us/family_visas/spouse.h...