JD Supra

To E-Verify or Not to E-Verify: Weighing the Pros and Cons

Employers often have questions about whether they should use E-Verify to help determine whether their new hires are authorized to work in the United States. The program – which matches I-9 data with ...
KCCI Des Moines

What is E-Verify, which is used to vet employment eligibility? A look at the system by the numbers

BREAKING NEWS. WE BEGIN THIS NEWSCAST WITH BREAKING NEWS. GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS HAS SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AND IT REQUIRES ALL STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS TO VERIFY EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY PRIOR TO ...
CNN

E-Verify was supposed to make it easy for companies to follow immigration law. Now even the feds say it can’t be trusted

When the police department of a small Maine resort town was told that one of its reserve officers was working in the US illegally, the Department of Homeland Security made sure the case was splashed ...
Forbes

E-Verify Back Online: What Employers Must Do Before October 14

Despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has resumed E-Verify operations. After more than a week of suspended operations, U.S. Citizenship and ...
Forbes

Government Shutdown Freezes E-Verify: What Employers Must Do Now

E-Verify depends on congressional appropriations. That makes it uniquely vulnerable to political stalemates. The U.S. government has officially shut down, and with it, the federal E-Verify program has ...
JD Supra

E-Verify is Back Baby: System is Now Operational Despite Government Shutdown

After trying to keep the system up despite the government shutdown, on October 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended E-Verify services. Tonight, October 7, the system was ...
NBC 6 South Florida

E-Verify expansion bill to check immigration status moves through Florida House

A proposal that would require small businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to check the immigration status of newly hired workers started moving forward Tuesday in the House. The ...

Florida’s universal E-Verify mandate passes House Floor

For the second year in a row, the Florida House has greenlit a measure requiring all businesses to use a federal verification tool to determine whether new hires can legally work in the country. HB ...
Odessa American

Texas won’t force private companies to use E-Verify to check workers’ immigration status, despite leaders’ tough talk

Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, center, proposed a bill this session that would have required all Texas employers to use E-Verify, a federal computer program that checks a worker’s authorization ...
WLRN

Proposal to use E-Verify to check immigration status of workers advances in Florida House

A proposal that would require small businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to check the immigration status of newly hired workers started moving forward Tuesday in the House. The ...
Radio Iowa

Iowa Senate votes to require E-Verify check for job applicants

The Iowa Senate has voted to require that every Iowa business use the federal government’s E-Verify system to check whether employees and job applicants are U.S. citizens or legal residents of the ...