USCIS E-Verify Connection: New FORM I-9 Special Edition
E-Verify Connection
A publication of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
March 2013 Issue XII
Note this issue now contains a correction!
Welcome to E-Verify Connection, an e-newsletter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for U.S. employers and workers. Each issue will bring you updates about E-Verify’s advances and activities, as well as other useful information related to employment eligibility verification.
If you wish to regularly receive this newsletter or other USCIS messages via our subscription management system, please visit Govdelivery.
A PDF version of E-Verify Connection is available online.
From USCIS: Employment Verification (E-Verify) Webinar, March 2013
All U.S. employers are required to verify the identity and employment eligibility of everyone they hire. Please join the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices, for a webinar that can help you to be INFORMED and to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS regarding employment and hiring practices.
Click on the image below for a copy of the flyer.
From USCIS: Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites interested individuals to participate in a stakeholder teleconference on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, from 1 p.m. to 3p.m. (Eastern).
During the teleconference, subject matter experts from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program will provide stakeholders with a program updates regarding near-term system enhancements and the new SAVE Case Check service for state and local benefit granting agencies and their customers.
Read all the details here.
USCIS Free Webinar: USCIS: Employment Verification (E-Verify)
Do you have questions about Form I9, Self Check or your Employee Rights? Are you an existing E-Verify user who needs questions answered?
Let USCIS help you.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is here to teach you and answer all your questions about Employment Verification (E-Verify) with free, live and interactive webinars.
Check out the FREE E-Verify Webinar Schedule, for EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES.
Be in the Know – Take a Free Webinar today.
Background:
Federal law requires every employer and agricultural recruiter/referrer-for-a-fee hiring an individual for employment in the US to verify his or her identity and employment authorization through completion of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has a website dedicated to this process including:
– Employee Rights
– Preventing Discrimination
– Filing a Discrimination Claim
Do you know that you can use Employment Verification (E-Verify) Self Check now? Self Check is a service of E-Verify. It is a free, Internet-based application that can be used by anyone in the U.S. over the age of 16 to confirm his or her employment eligibility. The service is available nationwide. After you enter a small amount of information, the Self Check service will check that information against various government databases to determine your work eligibility in the United States.
Do you know there is an Employee Rights Toolkit? Also in Spanish.