{"id":166574,"date":"2023-07-21T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/legal-and-compliance\/employment-law\/pages\/uscis-new-form-i9-remote-e-verify.aspx"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:40:24","slug":"uscis-employers-must-switch-to-new-version-of-form-i-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/uscis-employers-must-switch-to-new-version-of-form-i-9\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS: Employers Must Switch to New Version of Form I-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/squarehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/uscis-employers-must-switch-to-new-version-of-form-i-9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/squarehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/uscis-employers-must-switch-to-new-version-of-form-i-9-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"shrm-Element-P\"><span class=\"shrm-Style-ForceDropCap\">U.S.<\/span> Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2023-15667.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced Friday<\/a>&nbsp;a new Form I-9\u2014which has been streamlined and shortened\u2014that employers should use beginning Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shrm-Element-P\">Employers must stop using the older version of the Form I-9&nbsp;(Rev. 10\/21\/19)&nbsp;by Oct. 31, 2023. After that date, they will be subject to penalties if they use the older form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shrm-Element-P\">During the rulemaking process, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2023-15532.pdf\">proposed to create a framework<\/a>&nbsp;under which employers could implement alternative document examination procedures, such as remote document examination. The new form has a checkbox to indicate when an employee\u2019s Form I-9 documentation was examined using a DHS-authorized alternative procedure. At this time, the alternative verification methods are only available to employers currently using E-Verify, according to the new rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)&nbsp;announced Friday&nbsp;a new Form I-9\u2014which has been streamlined and shortened\u2014that employers should use beginning Aug. 1. Employers must stop using the older version of the Form I-9&nbsp;(Rev. 10\/21\/19)&nbsp;by Oct. 31, 2023. After that date, they will be subject to penalties if they use the older form. During the rulemaking process, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,29,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eligibility-verification-i-9","category-employment-law","category-hr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}