Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 Revised
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
announced that a revised Employment Eligibility
Verification Form (I-9) is now available for use. All
employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for each
employee hired in the United States.
The revision seeks to achieve full compliance with the
document reduction requirements of the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 (IIRIRA), which reduced the number of documents
employers may accept from newly hired employees during
the employment eligibility verification process. The
revised Form I-9 is a further step in USCIS’ ongoing
work toward reducing the number of documents used to
confirm identity and work eligibility.
Key to the revision is the removal of five documents for
proof of both identity and employment eligibility. They
include: Certificate of U.S. Citizenship (Form N-560 or
N-570); Certificate of Naturalization (Form N-550 or
N-570); Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-151);
the unexpired Reentry Permit (Form I-327); and the
unexpired Refugee Travel Document (Form I-571). The
forms were removed because they lack sufficient features
to help deter counterfeiting, tampering, and fraud.
Additionally, the most recent version of the Employment
Authorization Document (Form I-766) was added to List A
of the List of Acceptable Documents on the revised
form. The revised list now includes:
a)
a U.S. passport (unexpired or expired);
b)
a Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551);
c)
an unexpired foreign passport with a temporary I-551 stamp;
d)
an unexpired Employment Authorization Document that contains a
photograph (Form I-766, I-688, I-688A, or I-688B);
e)
and an unexpired foreign passport with an unexpired
Arrival-Departure Record (Form I-94) for nonimmigrant
aliens authorized to work for a specific employer.
The Form I-9 with a revision date of June 5, 2007 is the
only version of the form that is valid for
use. However, DHS will publish a Notice in the
Federal Register that provides employers with a
30-day period, beginning on date of publication of the
Notice, to transition to the new Form I-9. The revision
date of the Form I-9 is printed on the lower right
corner of the form and states “(Rev. 06/05/07)N”. Both
the revised form and the “Handbook for Employers,
Instructions for Completing the Form I-9” are available
online at
www.uscis.gov.
