Posts Tagged ‘employment eligibility’
Anti-Fraud Enhancements Added to E-Verify
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expanded the E-Verify program to include U.S. passport photo matching, which allows employers participating in E-Verify to automatically check the validity and authenticity of all U.S. passports and passport cards presented for employment verification. The goal of this addition is to prevent and detect the use of fraudulent documents.
The E-Verify program allows employers and businesses to check the work authorization of their employees online for purposes of completing the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Vertification. Originally, the E-Verify system cross-checked background information in the DHS and Social Security databases. With the addition of passport photo matching, employers are now able to compare the data presented with Department of State records.
Enrollment in the E-Verify program is voluntary for most and mandatory for employers holding Federal contracts or Federal subcontracts.
Please don’t hesitate to contact our San Francisco Immigration Law Office if you have questions about the E-Verify program.
Tags: E-verify, employment eligibility, fraud, I-9, passport
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Beginning Sept. 8, 2009, Federal Contractors Required to Use E-Verify
Beginning Sept. 8, 2009, all federal contractors will be required to use E-Verify, the government database used to verify employment eligibility of workers. E-Verify is a database run jointly by the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). It compares work eligibility information collected by the employer against information in the SSA’s database in order to verify employment eligibility.
Contracts awarded after Sept. 8th will contain an E-Verify clause, which will require enrollment in E-Verify within 30 days of entering into the contract. E-verify must be used to verify the employment eligibility of all new hires, whether or not they are working on the contract, and to verify the employment eligibility of existing employees, if they will be working on the contract.
This new requirement will subject more employers to scrutiny by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the interior enforcement arm of DHS. In addition to increasing administrative costs to U.S. businesses during a recession, it will likely result in an increase in ICE audits.
Tags: Dept. of Homeland Security, E-verify, employment eligibility, federal contractors, immigration
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