The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that it has redesigned the E-Verify system to make it easier for employers to verify whether or not individuals are authorized to work in the United States. E-Verify is a free, internet based based system, that allows participating employers to verify the employment eligibility of their employees. USCIS officials estimated that over 208,000 employers are registered users of  E-Verify, and, has [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported recently that the system both Congress and the President direct employers to use called E-Verify to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants, is actually failing to identify over half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company named Westat has found. The research company found that E-Verify failed to detect so many illegal workers mainly because the system [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported today that  the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on October 28, 2009, has extended the E-Verify, the Immigrant Investor (EB-5 Pilot Program), the Special Immigrant visa category for non-minister religious workers, and, the date by which J-1 nonimmigrant exchange visitors must obtain J-1 status to qualify for [...]

The US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reported yesterday that the implementation of the final rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to begin using its E-Verify system has been postponed to September 8, 2009.  The rule was first published on November 14, 2008 in the Federal Register requiring federal contractors and sub-contractors to agree to electronically verify the employment eligibility [...]

Change you can believe in? More of the same? You decide. The Houston Chronicle reports that President Obama’s choice to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says he wants to continue the Bush administration’s E-Verify system. Here’s what John Morton said in his Senate confirmation hearing last week: “We cannot make sustained reductions in illegal immigration without [...]