Eligible Employees and/or Job Seekers Can Now Perform Self-Check E-Verification

Eligible Employees and/or Job Seekers Can Now Perform Self-Check E-Verification The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched the first E-Verify Self Check on March 21, 2011. It is an innovative service that allows individuals in the United States to check their own employment eligibility status before they formally seek employment. E-Verify Self Check is in addition to an employer E-Verify procedure; it does...

Updated I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Procedures

Updated I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Procedures On April 14, 2011, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has updated some of the procedures pertaining to Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process. The new changes become effective on May 16, 2011. Employers must complete Form I-9 for all newly hired employees to verify their identity and authorization to work in the United...

ICE: Prison Terms for Employers/Conspirators for Harboring, Transporting and Employing Illegal Aliens

5 residents pled guilty, on July 16, 2010, to knowingly harboring, transporting and employing illegal aliens, as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents (such as special agents). ICE’s, an investigation agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), functions are to protect national security, public safety and the integrity of the...

A Smooth Sail for Employers? Immigration Worksite Enforcement

As Congress continues to appropriate more money to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employers in the U.S. will see an increase in immigration worksite enforcement in all industries, and industries involving critical infrastructure, according to officials of ICE who presided in a conference on May 28, 2009, held in affiliation with the immigration bar association. Immigration worksite enforcement (worksite enforcement)...