Green Card & Visa News

Effective the 8^th of Sep 2009 all the federal contractors and the sub contractors would be required to start using the E Verify system. This E Verify system would be primarily used to by the contractors to verify the eligibility of their employees to be working in the United States. As an act of prudence in July 09, Janet Napolitano the secretary of the Homeland Security Department (DHS) announced the administration’s support for the regulation by confirming that federal contracts would only be offered to the employers who would choose to have the E Verify system to validate the eligibility status of their employees.

This E Verify system is a totally web based system. The way it works is that it compares the data from the I-9 verification form, with the federal government data bases. And eventually produces a nod from the Department of Homeland Security, about the eligibility of the person concerned to work in the United States. This is a service run by the DHS in collaboration with the social security administration. This is an extremely careful step that has been taken by the United States government. To ensure there are no flaws in the employment system. This E Verify system would be responsible to figure out if any unauthorized alien is working in the United States or even helping them in any manner. The E Verify system would also help the federal employees uphold the prevailing laws of the country related to the federal immigration laws and total compliance to them.

The Case 2007 013, which is the Federal Acquisition rule, would create provision of the full usage of the E Verify system as a mandate for not only the federal contractors and the sub contractors of the federal departments but also for the beneficiaries of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Post the 8^th of Sep the usage of the E Verify system would be introduced as a clause and a mandate for the fore said employers. The companies that would be awarded a federal contract would be required to enroll themselves in the E Verify system within the next 30 days and verify the status of all the existing and the newly hired employees.

It has been recorded that since Oct 2008, as many as 146,000 participating employers have verified their employees at more than 551,000 sites Since then the number of verification queries that have been run shoots to more than 7.5 million and now the status is more than 97% of all the queries are automatically confirmed as permitted to work within a span of twenty four hours or less.