More than 5,200 businesses around the country have been served with I-9 inspection notices since January in a two-phase
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Form I-9 Fines
ICE Levies Largest Settlement Ever: Asplundh Tree Expert Co To Pay $95 Million
Asplundh Tree Expert Co., one of the largest privately owned corporations in the country, with 30,000 employees and 3.5 billion in annual sales, according to Forbes, has been ordered to…
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New I-9 Form To Be Released July 17, 2017
New Form I-9 Released
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a new revised version of Form I-9 on Monday, November 14, 2016. The previous editions of the Form (with “03/08/13” in the lower…
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The New I-9 is Coming
The Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) has approved the latest revisions to the current Form I-9, which expired on March 31, 2016 but remains valid until the new edition…
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Be Cautious When Conducting Internal I-9 Audits: Updated Guidance from USCIS and USDOJ
The Justice Department’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices issued a new technical assistance letter, posted to their website Jan. 13, which updates a letter issued…
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E-Verify: USCIS To Lock SSNs That Appear To Have Been Used Fraudulently
In November, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas announced an enhancement to the E-Verify program that will help combat identity fraud by identifying and deterring fraudulent use…
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ICE I-9 Penalties – Success in Hearings before OCAHO
This is the first of a series of blogs in which will report on recent trends at The Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), the agency responsible for…
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