Form I-9 Compliance

The Immigration Reform and Control Act legally mandates that U.S. employers verify the employment eligibility status of newly-hired employees and makes it unlawful for employers to knowingly hire or continue to employ unauthorized workers. With the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, founders of Form I-9 Compliance worked closely with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to develop the original Form I-9 and have been providing I-9 consulting services since. Our knowledge and expertise of Form I-9 employment verifications is unrivaled.

Form I-9 Compliance is the first federally-approved designated agent of the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration for Form I-9 employment verifications. Our proprietary system and software integration with the federal government’s Employment Verification Program (EVP) allows employers to quickly and accurately verify new employees’ legal right to work. We are able to check Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) databases and provide a unique DHS-issued verification number. In addition to new employee verifications, Form I-9 Compliance can also help you identify current employees with fraudulent Social Security numbers through the SSA’s Employee Verification Service (EVS).

Our secure and accurate Form I-9 services will:

• Help you ensure that your workforce is legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Simplify and improve the efficiency of your I-9 compliance process.
• Substantially decrease human errors in completing Form I-9s.
• Improve the accuracy of your payroll and tax reporting and virtually eliminate SSA inquiries concerning unmatched Social Security accounts.
• Cost-effectively reduce your exposure to government audits, financial penalties and negative publicity resulting from non-compliance.

Q1 ICE News

March 25, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of 14 illegal aliens employed as temp workers at Logan International Airport.

March 21, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the arrest of 9 aliens that used fraudulent immigration documents to gain employment at a Tucson, AZ based national defense subcontractor.

March 18, 2005 - ICE agents arrested an illegal alien who performed contract pipe insulation work at an Iowa nuclear power plant. He was later indicted for using and possessing fraudulent documents and making false statements to federal agents.

March 17, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the arrest of a cleaning service operator and 57 illegal aliens.

March 14, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the arraignment of two members of an employment agency that are accused of recruiting illegal aliens to supply workers to Asian restaurants throughout the central United States.

March 9, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced indictments seeking the forfeiture of more than $11 million in illicit proceeds that five defendants allegedly earned from hiring and harboring illegal aliens to work for substandard wages at their Albuquerque, NM Chinese restaurants.

March 8, 2005 - ICE agents arrested 27 illegal aliens working as aircraft mechanics and in other aircraft maintenance jobs at the Piedmont/Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. 12 people have been indicted for criminal charges including knowingly hiring illegal aliens.

January 4, 2005 - As a result of an ICE / FBI investigation a San Antonio, TX company pleaded guilty to falsifying employment forms to hire hundreds of illegal aliens for contract work at the nation's top producer of "Meals-Ready-to-Eat" (MRE) for U.S. military personnel in Iraq.

Record $11 Million Settlement

March 18, 2005 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. agreed to pay $11 million to settle a worksite enforcement investigation into the alleged hiring of illegal aliens by independent contractors that provided contract janitorial services to Wal-Mart stores throughout the U.S. from 1998 through 2003. The 12 companies that provided these services also agreed to pay $4 million.