USCIS announced on its web site today that it is releasing shortly an interim final rule on I-9s and 45 days after that a new I-9 form must be used by the nation’s employers. Not a ton of changes, but there is now a separate box for claiming to be a non-citizen national (up until now there was a single box for citizens and nationals. According to USCIS, here are the major changes:
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Requires that all documents presented during the verification process be unexpired;
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Eliminates
List A identity and employment authorization documentation Forms I-688,
I-688A, and I-688B (Temporary Resident Card and outdated Employment
Authorization Cards); -
Adds foreign passports containing certain machine-readable immigrant visas to List A;
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Adds
to List A as evidence of identity and employment authorization valid
passports for citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and
the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), along with Form I-94 or
Form I-94A indicating nonimmigrant admission under the Compact of Free
Association Between the United States and the FSM or RMI ; and -
Makes technical updates.
Here’s the draft language of the new rule as well as the USCIS press release.
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