On April 16, 2015, The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee met with the USCIS Verification Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, DC. During the meeting, USCIS officials responded to questions submitted by AILA representatives on a variety of E-Verify and Form I-9 related topics, including Form I-9 rehire rules, guidelines for addressing E-Verify noncompliance and E-Verify communication to employees.

On June 8th, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a notice in the Federal Register inviting the public to comment on several enhancements to the E-Verify Program.

Enhancements to E-Verify include:

North Dakota joins the Records and Information from DMVs for E-Verify (RIDE) Program starting June 15, 2015.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a notice in the Federal Register on June 8, 2015 inviting public comment on several enhancements to the E-Verify Program. Enhancements to E-Verify include:

With the recent addition of the Urdu, Punjabi and Somali translations, the following resources are now available in 21 foreign languages including English on the E-Verify public website.

Employees should know their rights as well as their employer’s responsibilities in the employment eligibility verification process. Our new and improved Employee Rights webinar uses real-life scenarios, plain language, appealing infographics and other visuals. Also, experts from USCIS and the Department of Justice, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) will be live to discrimination and other related employment eligibility verification questions. Space is limited!

The E-Verify Connection is an e-newsletter for all employers and employees. The April issue of the E-Verify Connection (PDF, 278 KB) has useful information about Acceptable Documents, proper completion of the optional email field in Section 1 and other topics related to employment eligibility verification.

On April 27, 2015, USCIS published a new E-Verify Webinar On-Demand for employers. View the free 20 minute video from start to finish or choose your topic of interest at any time. You will learn about Form I-9 and E-Verify, enrollment, how to run a case and more. It’s another good training tool to help your business.

The Account Compliance page now includes a chart reporting the program’s compliance activity statistics for the past three years.

myE-Verify® is the website that gives U.S. workers and job-seekers resources and tools to learn about and participate in the E-Verify process. In October 2014, the website introduced two new services, myE-Verify accounts and Self Lock, in five states and the District of Columbia; an additional 16 states were added in January 2015. myE-Verify accounts and Self Lock are now available nationwide.