Penalties, E-Verify, Enforcement Actions

End of E-Verify Alerts for Terminated Work Authorization Shifts Compliance Burden to Employers

Frost Brown Todd on 7/7/2025

On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a change in how E-Verify will manage the termination notification of employees with Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) that have been revoked....more

E-Verify Users Beware: New E-Verify Feature Makes it Easier to Charge Employers with Knowledge that an Employee’s EAD Has Been...

Ruder Ware on 6/25/2025

On June 20, 2025, the United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced a new functionality of E-Verify called a Status Change Report. The announcement instructs E-Verify employers to regularly log in to...more

The Approaching Social Security Number No-Match Flood

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers on 5/28/2025

Employers should be aware that we anticipate a flood of Social Security Number (SSN) no-match letters in the coming weeks. In the world of I-9 compliance, companies are stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. On...more

ICE Raids and Audits – What’s an Employer to Do

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 4/24/2025

Immigration enforcement by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has recently increased. Taking a proactive approach could help employers prepare to face immigration enforcement actions, such as raids or I-9...more

Employers Get Ready: I-9 Fine Increases Are Here — and More I-9 Inspections Are on the Horizon

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/16/2024

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that it will impose higher fines against employers that fail to comply with the complex rules governing Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility...more

OSC “Pattern and Practice” Investigations to Continue

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/1/2015

Over the past few years, the number of employer investigations—and perhaps more noteworthy, the amount of the penalties assessed—by the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has...more