Archive for the ‘E-Verify’ Category

USCIS’ Collaboration Session on Employment Eligibility Verification

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Office of Public Engagement is inviting national stakeholders to join in a collaboration session with USCIS to outline the employment eligibility verification process that an employer confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States.  The USCIS Verification Division is responsible for ...

E-Verify Changes Effective from Jan 01, 2010

Monday, January 4th, 2010

According to the report, the new State and local E-Verify requirements went into effect on January 1, 2010 in Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois, and Lancaster, California. The South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act requires all employers with 100 more employees to participate in E-Verify or only hire employees who possess ...

USCIS Programs Extended Through September 2012

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have announced on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriation Act of 2010, signed by the President on October 28, 2009, has extended the following four programs through September 30, 2009: E-Verify; Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Pilot Program; Special immigrant visa category for non-minister religious ...

DHS’ New Program, to Recognize Employers Committed to Maintaining a Legal Workforce

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, along with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Alejandro Mayorkas had announced the “I E-Verify” campaign to recognize the approximately 170,000 businesses nationwide that seek to maintain legal workforces by ...

Nebraska E-Verify Legislation

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Effective October 1, 2009, Nebraska Legislation Bill 403 requires public employers and contractors to register with and use the federal government’s E-Verify program to determine the employment eligibility of new hires physically performing services within the state of Nebraska. Participants in certain Nebraska tax programs must utilize E-Verify for all ...

E-Verify to Come into Effect from September 8, 2009

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Upbeat after getting a favorable order to implement E-Verify from a U.S. Court last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a reminder to federal contractors and subcontractors that effective September 8, 2009; they will be required to use the E-Verify system to check their employees’ eligibility to ...

USCIS Delays Implementation of E-Verify System for Federal Contractors

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has once again delayed the effective date of the final rule requiring certain federal contractors and subcontractors to use its E-Verify system until September 8, 2009. As readers would recollect from our previous news clips that E-Verify is free and voluntary system available ...

DHS Corrects Error, Omissions from the OPT Interim Final Rule

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has effected an amendment to correct a typographical error and two inadvertent omissions from the Optional Practical Training (OPT) interim final rule (IFR) published in the Federal Register on April 8, 2008. It may be recalled that DHS through IFR had extended the maximum ...

DHS Notice of a New System of Records Related to SAVE and E-Verify

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a notice in the Federal Register proposing to establish a new DHS system of records titled DHS/USCIS - 009 Compliance Tracking and Monitoring System (CTMS). Additionally, the DHS is issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concurrent with this system of records elsewhere ...

DHS Proposes to Exempt Portions of CTMS

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to exempt portions of a system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. Specifically, DHS proposes to exempt portions of the Compliance Tracking and Management System (CTMS) from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act ...