Immigration Alert – ICE Launches Initiative To Audit Employers’ I-9 Records by Squire Sanders

View this email as a webpage.July 2009 www.ssd.com Founded in 1890, Squire, Sanders & ICE Launches Initiative To Audit Dempsey L.L.P. has lawyers in 32 offices and 15 countries around the world. With Employers’ I-9 Records one of the strongest integrated global platforms and our longstanding one-firm philosophy, Squire Sanders provides seamless legal counsel worldwide. Following a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement about the Obama Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda (see our May 2009 Contacts: Immigration Alert), on July 1 the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau of DHS announced an Heidi C. Larson initiative to step up audits of employers’ Employment +1.213.689.5130 Eligibility Verification Form I-9 and related employment records. The ICE Notice alerts business owners that ICE Rebekah J. Poston will be inspecting their hiring records to ensure +1.305.577.7022 compliance with employment eligibility verification laws and regulations. Brian E. Schield +1.213.689.5109 ICE also announced on July 1 that it was serving 652 businesses throughout the United States with Notices of Gregory A. Wald +1.415.393.9828 Inspection (NOIs) of their I-9s and related employment +1.305.577.7000 records. ICE stated that the businesses served were selected for inspection as a result of leads and information obtained through other investigative means. A NOI typically gives the employer only three days to ...