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October 7, 2011
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DOJ Sues California Firm For Requiring Document Not on I-9 Required List

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) and its Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices is suing a California medical services firm, alleging a pattern of requiring job applicants to provide forms not required for Form I-9 work eligibility status. The suit springs from a February 2010 incident in which the company rejected a job applicant's work authorization f...
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August 23, 2011
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USCIS Expands E-Verify to 16 Additional States

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The online E-Verify Self-Check program offered by the United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has been expanded to 16 more states. Self-Check is open to individuals to verify that government databases contain the correct documentation to authorize them to work in the United States. The new states are California, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebra...
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May 16, 2011
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USCIS Launches I-9 Central Online Resource

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has launched I-9 Central, a new online resource center dedicated to the most frequently accessed form on USCIS.gov: Form I-9, Employee Eligibility Verification. The free Web site builds on recent employment-related enhancements by providing employers and employees simple one-click access to resources, tips and guidance to properly complete Form ...
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April 19, 2011
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Social Security Administration Resumes Sending No-Match Letters

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has resumed its practice of sending no-match letters to notify employers when any of their employees' submitted Social Security numbers do not correspond to a valid number on record. The SSA temporarily stopped issuing the letters in 2009 when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under pressure from both unions and business groups, withdrew its...
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April 14, 2011
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DHS to Publish Form I-9 Final Rule Tomorrow

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is poised to publish its final rule concerning documents acceptable to verify employment eligibility on the federal Form I-9, which is used to establish a person's legal right to work in the United States. The final rule, which will be published tomorrow (April 15) in the Federal Register, adopts the wording and intent of the department's interi...
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February 24, 2011
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USCIS Holds Forum on Possible Redesign of Form I-9

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On Tuesday, February 23, 2011, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) held a meeting to discuss the use and design of its Form I-9, which is used to document a worker's right to work in the United States. The participants were challenged—at the outset—to envision how they would design the I-9 if they were starting from scratch. Though comments ranged all o...
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November 11, 2010
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E-Verify Adds Passport Photo Matching

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday (Nov. 10, 2010) announced the addition of a passport and passport card verification feature on the government's online E-Verify employee eligibility system. “U.S. passport photo matching is another in the long line of enhancements we have made to improve the integrity of the E-Verify system,&rdquo...
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September 1, 2010
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E-Verify Adds Photo Verification Option

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Beginning this week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is expanding the photo matching portion of its E-Verify program to include U.S. passports and driver’s license data.   This change will be effective at the start of September and will give companies and organizations that use E-Verify the capability of comparing photos from an individual’s U.S. p...
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July 29, 2010
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USCIS Clarifies 'Three-Day' Rule for I-9 Verification

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Employers have three business days after hiring someone to collect information and complete the I-9 employment eligibility verification form, whether on paper or using the E-Verify electronic system. This has long been known as the "three-day rule," but it has--according to a recent United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) statement--often been misinterpreted. Accordi...
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November 11, 2009
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ICE Deal Saves Managers from Doing Hard Time

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Think that maintaining properly vetted I-9 forms on your employees isn't that big a deal? The answer --it is a big deal--has been driven home forcefully to management at Columbia Farms in Columbia, S.C. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in 2008 discovered hundreds of illegal immigrants working at the poultry plant, most of the workers were deported, dozens of others were t...
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