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 ToolkitAlso in Spanish.

Free Webinar on July 19: “Preparing for Deferred Action”

The Immigration Advocates Network (IAN), in partnership with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and United We Dream (UWD), invite you to join a free webinar, “Preparing for Deferred Action,” on Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 2:00 pm Eastern / 1:00 pm Central / 12:00 pm Mountain / 11:00 am Pacific. This webinar will cover what we know about the new deferred action policy for undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children, including basic eligibility requirements, how to document eligibility, “red flags” for applicants, and advocacy on the policy’s implementation. Panelists include Jennie Guilfoyle, Training and Legal Support Attorney at CLINIC; Paromita Shah, Associate Director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; and Don Lyster, Director of NILC’s Washington, DC office, among others.

To register for this free webinar, visit https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/855529534. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information on joining the webinar.

If you have questions, please email us at [email protected].

We hope that you will join us,
Immigration Advocates Network

The Immigration Advocates Network is a collaborative project of the ABA Commission on Immigration, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, ASISTA, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, National Immigration Law Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Pro Bono Net, and The Advocates for Human Rights. For more information about IAN, visitwww.immigrationadvocates.org