Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking input from the public regarding remote document examination practices for the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 conducted temporarily during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register on October 26, 2021. The DHS…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memorandum titled “Worksite Enforcement: The Strategy to Protect the American Labor Market, the Conditions of the American Worksite, and the Dignity of the Individual” that, among other things, ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In September of 2019, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed the Construction Industry Employee Verification Act to prohibit the employment of unauthorized workers and to require construction industry employers to verify the Social Security numbers (SSNs) of employees with the E-Verify program. The Act – which became law…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In September of 2019, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – issued “Form I-9 and E-Verify Guidance during Hurricane Season” to remind employers that all Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification requirements remain in effect for areas…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 7, 2019, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the federal agency enforcing laws governing American border control – announced that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed multiple federal criminal search warrants at seven agricultural processing plants in Mississippi as part of an ongoing…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 12, 2019, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) introduced a bill called the Permanent E-Verify Act that will make the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program permanent by removing the termination provision that requires Congress to repeatedly act to extend the program, according to a press release…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – the government agency overseeing lawful immigration to the United States – has published a Federal Register notice in order to invite public comments on the proposed extension of the ‘Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification’ before the document expires on…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In December of 2018, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the federal agency that enforces laws governing American border control – announced that criminal investigations, business audits, and arrests by ICE surged in fiscal year (FY) 2018 compared to FY 2017 following a commitment made…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Worksite Form I-9 audits will continue to rise for employers in the U.S. who are suspected of hiring ineligible workers in 2019. This trend has been chosen by leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) as tenth on the list of “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reminding employers using E-Verify that they may not terminate or take adverse action against employees because of Tentative Nonconfirmations (TNC) until after the Social Security Administration (SSA) or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have reviewed the case and the TNC becomes…
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