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E-Verify ENGAGEMENT EVENT SUMMARIES
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is continuing to host stakeholder events in order for E-Verify users to share concerns, experiences and ideas about the employment verification process. Feedback may support future process improvements. Users have periodically provided feedback on:
- Adding a new program administrator after the old administrator has left the organization;
- Finding out who the program administrator is for an organization when the user needs to reset their password;
- Terminating an existing account when switching access methods or becoming clients of employer agents;
- Merging accounts and records when companies go through the mergers and acquisition processes;
- Re-enrolling client accounts when the employer agent needs to move the account from one of their accounts to another; and
- Difficulty displaying the signed MOU signature page.
Stay tuned for future engagements.
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On Nov. 5, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hosted an E-Verify Account Management Listening Session. During this session, subject matter experts engaged with E-Verify users on the account management process. Approximately 644 E-Verify users participated in the session.
Some of the objectives included:
- What do you like most about the current enrollment, user account and company account management process?
- What specific challenges have you had in managing your company or user account?
- What account management functions or features do you benefit from the most? What features, if added, would assist you the most?
- What areas can we improve upon for enrollment, user account and company account management?
- How do you manage your user accounts? How do you ensure they are kept up to date?
Account Management issues that stood out:
- Linking and merging accounts– users need multiple passwords and need to complete training several times.
- Users are not able to update the username when previous person moved on. New user for same company does not want to re-enroll.
What we learned:
- Users expressed system is user friendly and easy to create cases.
- Some users have received varying or inconsistent responses to customer inquiries.
- Users expressed concerns with accounts and changing username and passwords.
- Users identified other topics to host with smaller groups and targeted messaging.
- Users appreciated customized relationship management support when it was available to them.
On Jan.14, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hosted an E-Verify Web Services (WS) Listening Session.
Some of the objectives included:
- To obtain valuable feedback from members of the E-Verify WS community which may support the E-Verify Program's strategic planning and requirements for updating the Interface Control Agreement (ICA); and
- To inform the WS community of known upcoming enhancements in FY21.
Approximately 413 WS users participated in the session. WS issues that stood out:
- It was suggested that USCIS create a Status Page regarding outages, in order to provide near real-time messaging on unplanned outages. USCIS will examine this suggestion to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Employers need the ability to close a case if an employee decides not to contest because employment was terminated. USCIS will examine this suggestion to identify opportunities for improvement.
What we learned:
- Some employers had to build testing simulators on their end for ICAv30 testing.
- Users expressed satisfaction with ICA v30 "close" feature for cases.
- Users expressed satisfaction with receiving updates via direct messaging.
- ICA releases should possibly follow agile methodology.
This and other valuable feedback received may support future process improvements. If you have questions about the E-Verify Web Services, contact e-verify-feedback@uscis.dhs.gov.