E-Verify Self Check
March 21, 2011USCIS-
The E-Verify Self Check (“Self Check”) service is a free, Internet-based application that can be used by a U.S. worker over the age of 16 to confirm his or her employment eligibility. The service is currently available in a limited area while it is evaluated and improved. After the user enters a small amount of information, the Self Check service will check that information against various government databases to determine the user’s work eligibility in the United States.
Self Check is part of E-Verify, a Department of Homeland Security program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in partnership with the Social Security Administration. Please click on the link to the right for more information about E-Verify.
Background Self Check was developed in response to a request by Congress to create a service through which U.S. workers could check their own employment eligibility status outside of the employer focused E-Verify process. It is the first service offered directly to the U.S. workforce by the E-Verify Program.
Benefits of Self Check The E-Verify Self Check service will bring a number of benefits to both U.S. workers and businesses.
Self Check will give U.S. workers access to their employment eligibility status and take the mystery out of the employment eligibility confirmation process. In addition, employees will have useful knowledge in fighting employment eligibility related workplace discrimination.
For businesses, the employer focused E-Verify process will be streamlined and shortened by a reduction in the number of data mismatches and, as a result, a decrease in amount of time employers and employees spend resolving those mismatches.
Association to E-Verify Self Check is the first online service offered directly to the U.S. workforce by the E-Verify Program.
E-Verify is an Internet-based system that enables an employer, using information reported on an employee’s Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to determine the eligibility of that employee to work in the United States.
The Self Check service enables U.S. workers to use the same information that employers enter into E-Verify and check it against the same databases that E-Verify checks. It was developed to allow U.S. workers to confirm their own eligibility to work in the United States and deal with any potential data mismatches that may be found before being hired and checked by an E-Verify participating employer.
To learn more about E-Verify, please visit http://www.uscis.gov/everify.
