New E-Verify site launched this week Email
Written by USCIS   
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 03:00 AM


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This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched a new website at E-Verify.gov. The site is modernized and more user-friendly, providing information about E-Verify and Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, including employee rights and employer responsibilities in the employment verification process. Upgrade details can be found on the E-Verify Enhancements April 2018 webpage.

 

 

E-Verify.gov allows employers to enroll in E-Verify directly and permits current users to access their accounts anytime, anywhere. Nearly all employees are confirmed as work-authorized instantly or within 24 hours. The system, which has nearly 800,000 enrolled employers, compares information from an employee’s Form I-9 to records available to the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to verify authorization to work in the U.S.

 

On April 23, USCIS announced the E-Verify program modernized its system to improve users’ experience, reduce errors, and increase the speed and accuracy of the employment eligibility verification process. Improvements include: 

 

  • Enhanced usability features to help users enter correct information and makes E-Verify more user-friendly
    • Expanded helper text and visuals to give more details about the data fields and documents
    • Provide real-time feedback on errors to allow users to quickly correct data entry errors
    • An auto-scroll feature that automatically advances to the next section of the page that needs to be completed, which allows the user to edit case information without changing pages 
  • Streamlined case creation and management to increase results speed and accuracy:
    • Streamlined the E-Verify case creation and case closure process by removing unnecessary steps in a case to help users to complete the case faster
    • Modernized the data matching process to reduce Tentative Nonconfirmations (TNCs)
    • Created an, “Are You Sure?” alert that is personalized to the user and only shows fields that may have triggered a TNC rather than showing all fields to help employers more easily identify errors
    • Combined DHS and SSA TNCs and now give employees 10 days to address both issues at the same time 
  • Improved overall data integrity and system compliance:
    • Improved photo matching features to give users the option to take pictures of the document using mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones
    • Changed “Hire Date” to “Employee’s First Day of Employment,” to better align with Form I-9
    • Employer must now enter a reason why the employee is working after receiving an FNC, which allows for better record keeping for FNCs retained by an employer 

 

If you are having trouble completing a case in the modernized E-Verify system, please contact [email protected]. Please include in the subject: “Employer Name – E-Verify Modernization Issues.” You have 10 extra business days to submit this case.

 

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