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Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador was set to expire on September 9, 2026. As of this writing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stated that “[a]n announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time. Until such announcement is made, Salvadoran individuals present in the U.S. remain under TPS [and] retain protection.” USCIS has now reposted the same message on its TPS webpage for El Salvador, further confirming the agency’s position that Salvadoran TPS beneficiaries remain protected pending a formal announcement regarding the program’s future.

Continue Reading DHS Allows Salvadoran TPS Beneficiaries to Work and Remain, For Now

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a significant expansion of the E-Verify Status Change Report, creating new compliance obligations for E-Verify employers and substantially increasing the number of employees who may appear on the report. Employers should review their internal processes now to ensure they are prepared to…

Continue Reading E-Verify’s Expanded Status Change Report: What Employers Need to Know

Thank you to Amy C. Hoang for her contributions.

On May 29, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a proposed rule that would significantly expand E-Verify obligations for employers that receive federal funding. Among the sweeping revisions, one provision stands out: a requirement that recipients and subrecipients of…

Continue Reading Embedding E-Verify into Federal Funding: Where Immigration and Grant Compliance Converge

This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent email alerts and added guidance on the E‑Verify What’s New area on their website establishing dates for Form I‑9 Section 2 (and related Section 1 notations) for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) countries with terminations stayed by litigation. As discussed in our…

Continue Reading TPS in the Waiting Room: Courts Continue to Review, Form I-9 Placeholder Dates Appear

After trying to keep the system up despite the government shutdown, on October 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended E-Verify services. Tonight, October 7, the system was brought back online. It is unclear how long it will remain operational, or how USCIS managed to restore access during the…

Continue Reading E-Verify is Back Baby: System is Now Operational Despite Government Shutdown

By: Dawn Lurie, Alexander Madrak, and Matthew Parker*

A Morning of Uncertainty

Employers awoke this morning to news of a federal government shutdown, prompting immediate concern over employment authorization compliance. Chief among those concerns: the availability of E-Verify. Questions like “Will E-Verify remain online?” “What happens to my…

Continue Reading USCIS Suspends E-Verify Amid Government Shutdown

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US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) initially deployed the Status Change Report on June 20, 2025, to help certain employers identify whether any E-Verify cases were created using an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) that has since been revoked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Continue Reading E-Verify Revocation Lists for CHNV Updated: Employers Have to Add One More Thing to Their To-Do Lists
My fiancee got these for me one February when I had the flu. I wanted them as a photo prop, hoping I’d get better in time to shoot it for Valentine’s Day, but… at least they looked just as pretty the next year. What you see is the contents of 9 little boxes. I was surprised that so many were needed, but fewer just didn’t have the right look.
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On the morning of February 14, 2024, several clients reached out after encountering issues with the photo matching tool in E-Verify. They reported discrepancies where the photos transmitted by E-Verify did not align with the photos on the employees’ documents. It became increasingly clear that E-Verify was not rendering…

Continue Reading Valentines Day Glitch: E-Verify Photo-Match Mayhem

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

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Please join Seyfarth’s Immigration Compliance and Enforcement Team as they launch a four-part series focused on critical challenges faced by employers in…
Continue Reading Webinar: Special Delivery – Unwelcome Outreach from the Government: Part 1: Love Letters From E-Verify – Complexities and Nuances

On February 17, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it will dispose of any E-Verify records older than 10 years on May 14, 2021.  On May 19, the E-Verify Records Disposal Date was extended to June 4, 2021. This notice provides a reminder to employers that participation…
Continue Reading E-Verify Spring Cleaning