All businesses in Alabama must enroll in the federal E-Verify employment eligibility verification system by April 1, 2012, and this is no April Fools’ Joke. According to ‘The Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act’ (H.B. 56), considered by many to be the toughest immigration enforcement measure in the country to date, every Alabama business – regardless of size – must enroll in E-Verify by the April 1 deadline to be in compliance with the law or else they could lose their licenses for failing to abide by the law. The full text of Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act is at: http://www.openbama.org/index.php/bill/fulltext/3154. (more…)

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Office of Public Engagement has invited the public to participate in “Enlace,” a free Spanish language event focused on the E-Verify Self Check online service scheduled for Wednesday, March 1, 2012, at 3:30 PM to 5:00PM EST (12:30 to 2:00 PM PST). Those interested in attending the event may do so via a live Web stream at http://www.uscis.gov/enlace or by calling 1-888-989-4980, entering the passcode “ENLACE,” and downloading the presentation. (more…)

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the free online service of the E-Verify electronic employment eligibility verification system called “Self Check” that allows workers to check their own employment eligibility status is now available in all 50 United states, as well as Washington, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. For more information about Self Check, please visit: http://www.uscis.gov/selfcheck. (more…)

The first U.S. Government strategy and implementation plan to address ideologically-inspired violent extremism in the Homeland, the White House recently released the ‘STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR EMPOWERING LOCAL PARTNERS TO PREVENT VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES’ that will serve as a blueprint for how the Administration will implement the Domestic Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in the United States, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Office of Public Engagement.

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Despite California Governor Jerry Brown recently signing into law the Employment Acceleration Act of 2011 (A.B. 1236) that prohibits cities and counties in the state from requiring employers to use an electronic employment eligibility verification system such as E-Verify beginning January 1, 2012, an article in the Contra Costa Times reveals that more than 26,000 employers in the Golden State have signed up for the federal E-Verify program that checks if newly hired employers are legally eligible to work in the United States. (more…)