*By Jason Rossiter
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it is delaying the
implementation of new Form I-9 until April 3, 2009, rather than the
proposed effective date of February 2, 2009. The DHS determined that
the number of comments they received concerning the new Form I-9
constituted an extension of the public comment period for an additional
30 days, until March 4, 2009.
Until the new Form I-9 goes into effect, employers should
continue to use the current version of the Form I-9 with the annotation
"Form I-9 (Rev. 06/05/07)" on the bottom right-hand corner of the form
and the expiration date of June 30, 2009. This form can be downloaded
at: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-9.pdf.
Employers must also continue to accept any documents presented by
employees listed on the current Form's I-9 List of Acceptable Documents.
*Jason Rossiter has extensive experience in all aspects of
workplace law, including employee intake and application procedures.
For more information about application procedures or any other
employment issue, please contact Zashin & Rich at 216.696.4441.
