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E-Verify is not available due to a lapse in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations and in the statutory authority for the E-Verify program. While E-Verify is unavailable, employers cannot access their E-Verify accounts.
Employers must continue to complete and retain Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification for every person hired to work for pay in the United States within the required time.
Employers using an alternative procedure authorized by DHS to perform a remote examination of employee Form I-9 documents may continue to do so if they remain enrolled in good standing in E-Verify during the lapse in DHS appropriations.
Additionally, E-Verify’s staging environment is not available. While the staging environment is unavailable, web services developers cannot perform integration and testing of their software interface.
Companies that use web services to manage and generate cases must complete their software interface no later than six months after the date the web services employer signs the memorandum of understanding. During this time, E-Verify will extend the deadline to the same length of time the system is unavailable. For example, if the system is unavailable for 3 days, we will extend the deadline by 3 days.
Employees cannot resolve E-Verify Tentative Nonconfirmations (mismatches) while E-Verify is unavailable. Employees with an Social Security Administration (SSA) mismatch must wait until E-Verify resumes operations to visit an SSA office.
For more information, please visit E-Verify What’s New.
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
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