Update: This post was initially revised on March 20, 2020, to reflect the Department of Homeland Security's announcement regarding flexibility in requirements related to Form I-9 compliance for ...

Daniel Brown is a Partner in Fragomen, Del Ray, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, and is part of the firm’s government strategies and compliance group. His experience includes counseling ...

The DHS-mandated Form I-9 was enacted in the late 1980s as part of an initiative to curb employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. The process remained largely unchanged for decades until COVID ...

Employers in the United States are required to use a new, shorter I-9 form that can now be filled out on mobile devices starting Nov. 1, according to Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a ...