Form I-9 Employment Eligibility

Dedicated to the discussion of the Form I-9 and best practices for I-9 employment eligibility verification and processes for ensuring employees have a legal right to work.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Electronic Signature & Storage

April 28, 2005 - Public Law 108-390 (signed by the President on October 30, 2004) goes into effect April 28, 2005, but the Department of Homeland Security has not yet issued final regulations for how employers will be able to sign and store Forms I-9 electronically. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a Fact Sheet containing background information and guidelines for making use of electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Forms (Form I-9). Read Fact Sheet.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Form I-9 Compliance

The Immigration Reform and Control Act legally mandates that U.S. employers verify the employment eligibility status of newly-hired employees and makes it unlawful for employers to knowingly hire or continue to employ unauthorized workers. With the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, founders of Form I-9 Compliance worked closely with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to develop the original Form I-9 and have been providing I-9 consulting services since. Our knowledge and expertise of Form I-9 employment verifications is unrivaled.

Form I-9 Compliance is the first federally-approved designated agent of the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration for Form I-9 employment verifications. Our proprietary system and software integration with the federal government’s Employment Verification Program (EVP) allows employers to quickly and accurately verify new employees’ legal right to work. We are able to check Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) databases and provide a unique DHS-issued verification number. In addition to new employee verifications, Form I-9 Compliance can also help you identify current employees with fraudulent Social Security numbers through the SSA’s Employee Verification Service (EVS).

Our secure and accurate Form I-9 services will:

  • Help you ensure that your workforce is legally authorized to work in the United States.

  • Simplify and improve the efficiency of your I-9 compliance process.

  • Substantially decrease human errors in completing Form I-9s.

  • Improve the accuracy of your payroll and tax reporting and virtually eliminate SSA inquiries concerning unmatched Social Security accounts.

  • Cost-effectively reduce your exposure to government audits, financial penalties and negative publicity resulting from non-compliance.