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Required Employment Documents:

Continuing Students: (Continuing in the same or deferent job,hiring supervisor can determine if the student is already in PPS)

  • No additional documents are required and the student need not come to the Career Center Blue Card will NOT be issued to continuing students.

New Hires / Re-Hires: (Never worked for UCSC or have dropped off payroll)

  • There are MANDATORY items students need to bring to the Career Center:
    • Original Identity and Employment Eligibility Documents described below:
    • Printable List (pdf) Printable List (html)
    • Photocopies of these documents will NOT be accepted
    • International Students have these additional requirements
    • Non-Citizen Permanent Residents must provide the "Alien" number from their permanent resident card.

LIST A: Documents that Establish Both Identity and Employment Eligibility
(Any ONE of the following documents will satisfy the requirement)

  1. United States Passport (unexpired or expired)
  2. Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551)
  3. An unexpired foreign passport with a temporary I-551 stamp
  4. An unexpired Employment Authorization Document that contains a photograph
    (Form I-766, I-688, I-688A, I-688B)
  5. 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

If you do not have one of the documents listed above, you will have to provide TWO documents - one to prove identity (List B), and one to prove that you are authorized to work in the U.S. (List C):

LIST B: Documents that Establish Identity

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. School ID card with a photograph
  4. Voter's registration card
  5. U.S. Military card or draft record
  6. Military dependent's ID card
  7. U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner card
  8. Native American tribal document
  9. Driver's license issued by a Canadian government authority

    For persons under age 18 who are unable to present a document above:
  10. School record or report card
  11. Clinic, doctor or hospital record
  12. Day-care or nursery record

LIST C: Documents that Establish Employment Eligibility

  1. U.S. Social Security card issued by the Social Security Administration (other than a card stating it is not valid for employment)
  2. Certification of Birth abroad issued by the Department of State (Form FS-545 or DS-1350)
  3. 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
  4. Native American tribal document
  5. U.S. Citizen ID card (Form I-197)
  6. ID card for use of Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179)
  7. Unexpired employment authorization document issued by DHS (other than those listed under List A)

Upon completion of all forms at the Career Center, you will be issued a "blue card" to bring to your supervisor showing employment eligibility.

International Student Requirements:

  1. Social Security Number. Instructions for Obtaining a Social Security Number
    Call the Social Security office in two days to get your number.
  2. Original I-20
  3. Passport with I-94 and Visa

* You may apply for a new or duplicate social security card, free of charge. When you apply for a duplicate, they will give you a receipt. This receipt will get you temporally on payroll for one month. You must bring your new card to the Career Center when you receive it, in order to continue to receive your paychecks. The office is located in downtown Santa Cruz and is open weekdays from 9 to 4pm.

Social Security Administration (831) 426-8111
169 Walnut Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA

UCSC Career Center
Bay Tree building, Third Floor
Hours: 9am - 5pm
(No payroll sign ups after 4:30)

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Last Modified:
June 19, 2008


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