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Changes to E-Verify and I9

As most employers know, if you are a federal contractor it is now the law to conduct E-Verify or I9 background checks to be sure your employees are legitimately eligible to work in the United States.  Any employer who does not comply with the new law can lose its business contracts with the federal government.

Additionally, Arizona is the first state in the union to mandate all of  its employers conduct E-Verify or I9.   If in Arizona you fail to comply, you can face fines and business suspension or closure for repeated offenses.

We are pleased to announce that two important changes to E-Verify are coming in December 2009.  You are receiving this email so you can plan accordingly.

What are the changes?

The first change is an additional verification page, which will both streamline the verification process and help you avoid data entry mistakes.  The second change is called the Photo Matching tool, also known as the Photo Screening Tool.  It is already an automatic part of the verification process for over 160,000 E-Verify participating companies.

What is the Photo Matching Tool?

The Photo Matching tool enables companies to better secure an authorized workforce by ensuring that select documents provided by new hires are valid.  It automatically displays official DHS-issued photo identification when a Form I-551 or I-766 is used by the employee for their Form I-9 identification.  The E-Verify User must match the photo on the employee’s document (or a copy) with the official photo provided by E-Verify.  This process requires you to have to document or a copy of the document on hand to make the photo comparison.

What else is new?

Along with the Photo Matching Tool are new DHS letters – for DHS Referral and for DHS Tentative Nonconfirmation.  There will also be an updated User Manual.

What happens now?

As with past system enhancements, you will be sent the new Interface Control Document (ICD) on or about the release date of the enhancement.  You will have 6 months from receipt of the ICD to complete the changes to your system.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

2 replies on “Changes to E-Verify and I9”

Today! As always! We are fighting for American jobs, against the ingress of illegal workers in the work force. If President Obama desires to open more jobs, for the estimated 10 percent of unemployed US citizens and legal entrants, he must sever the jobs from illegal immigrants? The estimate is somewhere between 7 and 8 million foreign workers procuring American jobs. E-Verify is part of the SAVE act, that can relieve part of the problem, if only it was permanently used, and not just for the impulse of countrywide business owners. Each day E-Verify grows in popularity, but was nearly washed away by leading Democrats. It’s very cost effective, simple to apply and is constantly being updated by Homeland Security. E-Verify is not an instant remedy, but then the monstrous numbers of illegal families, didn’t happen overnight. Both parties have been implicated, in allowing illegal aliens to stream through an undermanned border fence. All irregularities can be expeditiously resolved by a visit to the local Social Security Admin, where unauthorized workers will not go?

Next we must add pressure to all Democrats to make E-Verify mandatory around Americain addition to the local police fed training program 287 G., to identify and apprehend illegal aliens. Included in this package is ICE raids that have been limited by the HS Secretary Janet Napolitano. They always are making the statement “That immigrants are good for the economy?” May be Immigrants! So why do they not shout from the rooftops, the actual expenditures for anchor babies and their families? The costs of food stamps, public housing, schools, health care and the massive dollar figure. No political entity will give you the unsterilized amounts of money that taxpayers pay out to support the illegal immigration invasion. Anybody who speaks out creates noxious flak, for themselves or their frightened group they volunteer for? Its the undisclosed public money that is paid to people who shouldn’t even be here?

It seems this slowing down of Immigration enforcement, can be associated with the push for the Democrats Comprehensive Immigration Reform. But whatever they call it, the cost to taxpayers will be substantial. By any other name it’s BLANKET AMNESTY! Costs that fly out the window, similar to the wars we are fighting? Money for the actual AMNESTY to process the 20-30 million newly legitimized. All must have a medical examination or should? Or are they going to pass out special permits for people, without any true check without FBI criminal background investigations? They must achieve this process for the hundreds of thousands patient potential immigrants waiting for an entry visa for years? Then what is the administration going to establish for those conniving across the borders in other impoverished countries–waiting for an intro for the bill to be enacted? Who knows how many are ready to slip into America–hoping to be integrated with all those already here.

How are we going to absorb all these people wanting services–housing, food, health care? To satisfy business organizations we need highly skilled workers, not available elsewhere. Not H-1B visa holders who are semi-skilled and just an outrageous excuse to bring in more low income workers? We have our own job seekers who are just as skilled, just as professional in their forte across the nation urgently seeking work? All these poorly, uneducated people taking even lower pay, and being in competition with low or non-skilled members of the legal population. This is truly agenda of the Internationalists to lower wages with Canada and finally all those lands south of the border. This has been the silent plan of the Council of Foreign Relations for decades to institute the unfettered waves of cheap labor for the corporate appetite in our country?

BETTER KNOWN AS CORPORATE WELFARE–BECAUSE YOU PAY. AMNESTY WILL BE YET ANOTHER TAX TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. If we cannot even repair 30 year rotting infrastructure, or keep our own people from becoming homeless? How are we going to justify supporting–underestimated numbers–of more destitute people? Obama cannot even find jobs for the unemployed now, and yet these politicians want to attract more people. Good for businesses? Yes! But not for Americans lining up at food banks.

HERE IS JUST A FEW OF AMERICAN WORKERS WORST ENEMIES? READ THEIR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT GRADING. Bennet, Michael F. – (D – CO) ,Bennett, Robert F. – (R – UT),Dodd, Christopher J. – (D – CT),Feingold, Russell D. – (D – WI),Gillibrand, Kirsten E. – (D – NY),Inouye, Daniel K. – (D – HI),Leahy, Patrick J. – (D – VT),Lincoln, Blanche L. – (D – AR), Mikulski, Barbara A. – (D – MD), Murray, Patty – (D – WA), Reid, Harry – (D – NV), Schumer, Charles E. – (D – NY), (R – AL),Wyden, Ron – (D – OR), Michael Capuano – (D-MA) & House Speaker Pelosi, Nancy- (D-CA). REMEMBER THEM 2010 ELECTION? Start the 28 cent postcard campaign, forewarning them of the consequences? Start calling every and all politicians at 202-224-3121. Since the beginning there has been no serious attention to stop competitive labor pouring through the border or those tourists with intentions to stay?

The key ingredients are already here for overpopulation, admits the Census bureau. Get the predictable answers to your immigration questions by GOOGLING— NUMBERSUSA. Learn of the corruption and un-American, anti-sovereignty manipulation of our laws at JUDICIAL WATCH. We must fight or go under. America and American Workers are depending on your actions? We can no longer afford to support the World and its problems, because it’s destabilizing the dollar and allowing other countries to be our creditors.