E-Verify program and Its Abidance with I-9 Compliance
It is obvious for any curious person to gain maximum information about the I-9 Compliance when they are entitled to abide by the laws and to complete all the necessary requisites to obtain the legal and authorized permission to work in United States. The Immigration reform and Control act of 1986 states that employers need to check and verify the identity and work eligibility of their existing and newly hired employees after November 1986 only after confirming they have competed and submitted the I-9 Employment Verification Form. In many instances employer need to maintain the timely filling of completed I-9 forms whenever they hire a new employee and start accepting his services in return for wages. According IRCA hiring an illegal immigrant in any US based establishment is a serious criminal offense and has incorporated severe penalties for the same.
To ease the documentation procedure that always seems to be tedious job for employers an electronic program with the name of E-Verify was launched in 1997 as a voluntary employment eligibility validation program. The Immigration and Custom Enforcement (TCE) set up the program along with Social Security Administration (SSA). Employers all over the country are relieved of their additional job when they have access to online program through which they can easily check and verify the individual employee’s right to work in United States along with the expiry date of the permit.
E-Verify is a free voluntary program operated and maintained by the US government to certify and help different employers to check the validity of their employees and to understand their employment Eligibility Criteria. Due to the millions of records submitted in database of E-Verify program by DHS and SSA employers do have a chance to compare electronically the information submitted in the I-9 form by their employees. Until now, the efficacy and accuracy of the E-Verify program measured to be 99.5 percent.
Only individuals and institutions certified by the US government are able to utilize the E-Verify program. The employment eligibility verification process needs to be completed within three days after the employee starts resumes his job and the same is initiated when the employee actually starts his working with the new enterprise. However E-Verify program is a process that needs to be used after the hiring the employee and should not be used for the pre-employment screening. In addition, the E-Verify program also certifies the Social Security Number used by the applicant is valid and not used by multiple persons.
Additional information on the new I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form and I-9 Complinace can be obtained from the official DHS website along with the list of acceptable documents required for the employee verification as per the norms of new I-9 form.
