Immigration

The new I-9 form is coming: Take advantage of grace period

09/20/2016

A new version of Form I-9 is coming this fall, with enhanced features to reduce errors and help employers complete it on their computers.

Get ready to use new ‘smart’ I-9 form this fall

09/15/2016

Within the next two months, expect the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to publish a long-awaited update to the Form I-9.

Get ready to use new, enhanced Form I-9

09/12/2016

A new employment eligibility verification form will be available by Nov. 23.

New rules for recruiting foreign workers

09/06/2016

The Office of Foreign Labor Certification is expected to publish new regulations aiming to modernize the U.S. Department of Labor’s electronic permanent labor certification system.

How do we complete I-9s for out-of-state staff?

08/31/2016

Q. Some of our employees work in other states out of their homes. For completing the I-9 Forms, can I use a notary public to verify employees’ documents?

New visa regs would aid H-1B mobility

01/15/2016

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published new proposed regulations designed to make it easier for highly skilled immigrants who hold work visas to remain in the country if their work circumstances change.

Feds on alert for employers gaming H-2B visa system

12/11/2015

While no enforcement statistics have been released this year, federal officials are taking a close look at employers they suspect are bending the H-2B visa rules.

How do we go about verifying I-9 documents for remote employees?

10/28/2015

Q. We have a workforce that largely works remotely, some hundreds of miles from our corporate office. For a variety of reasons, we will be reclassifying a number of these individuals from independent contractor status to employees. Given that we will need I-9s for the employees, do we need to personally see the required identification documents, or can the employees send us facsimiles/scans, etc.? If we need to see the forms personally, what is the best way to do that?

We found questionable I-9 documents: What now?

05/28/2015

Q: “While conducting an annual self-audit of employee files and I-9 compliance, I have encountered some questionable documents that I believe to be fraudulent. If I contact an ICE agent to verify these documents, will this then trigger a company wide ICE audit?” – Santana, Texas

USCIS reaches H-1B visa cap in less than a week

04/23/2015

All 85,000 H-1B visas for 2016 are spoken for, snapped up in less than seven days in an application process that began April 1.