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Reminder that Employers Must Use New I-9 Form Starting this Friday, April 3, 2009

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Reminder that Employers Must Use New I-9 Form Starting this Friday, April 3, 2009

April 1, 2009

As we have previously related, employers must use the Department of Homeland Security's new form for Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) starting on Friday, April 3, 2009 for new hires or re-verification of old I-9s. Click here to view the new Form I-9 in PDF format.
The types of acceptable identity and employment authorization documents that employees may present to their employers for completion of the new I–9 differ slightly: naturalization certificates are no longer considered an acceptable I-9 document. The rule also adds to "List A" foreign passports containing specially marked machine-readable visas and documentation for certain citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI).

New Employer Instructional Handbook for Form I-9 Now Available

The government has published a new I-9 employer handbook (M-274), containing instructions for the use of the new Form I-9, available at: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/m-274_3apr09.pdf.


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