This week, we received an advisory from the United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS). In it, the USCIS acknowledged that all current iterations of the Employment Eligibility Verification form, Form I-9, (English, Basic and Spanish) contain an expiration date of October 31, 2022 – just two weeks away. Notwithstanding, employers should continue using the…
Read More »When the coronavirus pandemic hit the nation over two years ago, the rules governing employer obligations for in-person inspection of employee documentation were relaxed, allowing for remote review of I-9 documentation. A few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it was extending that flexibility through October 31, 2022, however, only in the…
Read More »With the Biden administration and Congressional leadership continuing to push to more than double the federal minimum wage (currently $7.25/hour) to $15 per hour, a different approach is expected to be introduced next week in the US Senate. Republican Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) are planning to propose legislation next week that…
Read More »Beginning today, May 1, 2020 employers must use the newer Employment Eligibility Verification Form (with the revised date of 10/21/19-found in the bottom left-hand corner). Form I-9 is published by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and changed periodically to address current issues. For the past three months, notwithstanding the coronavirus crisis, employers have…
Read More »The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new version of the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9) for use by employers effective this week. Federal law requires that all employers complete a Form I-9 to document verification of the identity and employment authorization of each new employee hired after November 6, 1986,…
Read More »The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments this week on a case coming out of Kansas relating the use of information taken from the I-9 Form. Kansas v Garcia involves three restaurant workers who were charged by the state of Kansas with identity theft based on fraudulent information included in state…
Read More »On the surface, it might not seem like good advice to use a government form that’s expired, but in the absence of an updated one, that is exactly what we recommend. Although the current Employment Eligibility Form, or the-9 form as it is customarily known, specifically states that it expired on August 31 of this…
Read More »Early this week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a new version of the I-9 Form, Employment Eligibility Verification. The new form incorporates the 5 specific changes to the form, each of which is detailed on the USCIS website. The new form was effective and available for use immediately upon its July…
Read More »The new Employment Eligibility Verification form, more commonly known as the I-9 Form and adopted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) last year becomes effective tomorrow, January 21. For the past several months, the USCIS was allowing the continued use of the older expired form (with an expiration date listed of 3/31/16)…
Read More »The federal Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has approved a revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification and it now is incumbent upon the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to publish a revised form with instructions by November 22, 2016. In the meantime, employers should continue using the current version of the Form…
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