EMPLOYERS ARE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO FORM I-9 COMPLIANCE IN 2018

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Employers pay attention to Form I-9 compliance. And, there are more employers focusing on I-9 compliance in 2018. Meaning, are you properly completing the employment eligibility verification form for all new hires and re-verifying employees’ expiring work authorization?

The reason being that the number of ICE investigations in 2018 has doubled since 2017. So far in fiscal year 2018, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) initiated twice the number of worksite enforcement investigations compared to all of last year.

Worksite Investigations / I-9 audits

2018 2017
Worksite Investigations 3,510 1,716
 I-9 audits 2,282 1,360

Criminal & Administrative Arrest

2018 2017
Criminal 594 139
Administrative 610 172
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ABOUT AUTHOR
Montserrat C. Miller

She began her career as a trial attorney with the Immigration and Naturalization Service handling, among other cases, employer sanctions matters. Over the years Miller has worked in both private practice and on Capitol Hill as counsel to Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is now a partner at Arnall Golden Gregory’s Privacy and Consumer Regulatory, Immigration and Global Migration, and Government and Regulatory practices. You can read more from her at her blog.