Direct Information On The I-9 Form

By Winston Foreman


The United States of America and its government functions rules in a various amount of ways and one of these unquestionable strategies is to keep information and documents of just about everything that goes on using various sorts of forms and applications. Employment forms are specifically unquestionable due to recordkeeping of their employees and even a mandatory contract between the employer and the employee. These are some of the basic measurements and steps the businesses must take in order to remain productive and untroubled.

As opposed to many other documents linked to employment, the I9 Form is issued by and filed for the bureau of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and not the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as it doesn't concern income and taxes but the very qualification requirements of an employee to legally work in the country. Actually, it is also known as the Employment Eligibility Verification Form.

Applied by employers to verify employee i . d and eligibility, the I9 Form is the outcome of a 1986 Act of Congress that desired to regulate the problem of illegal immigration. Using the form, both employer and employee certify to the government that all legal specifications are satisfied. Everyone hired after November 6, 1986 needs to fill out Section 1 of the I-9 Form at the time of hire, with Section 2 completed by the employer within three days of hire. This document is not required for unpaid volunteers or contractors, though a company may still be held responsible if it is found to have purposefully hired a contractor that uses illegal workers. However, as can be imagined, indicating intent would be hard!

All this occurred with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), a bipartisan attempt to do something about the increasing number of illegal immigrants showing up in the United States. Yet IRCA was only able to pass after workplace opposition subsided with the inclusion of an "affirmative defense" clause that basically lets employers off the nook for employing illegal immigrants! For all an employer had to do to be in compliance was to accept at face value the document supplied by an employee, with no responsibility whatsoever to conduct any kind of further affirmation. With the inclusion of this loophole, IRCA finally passed.

No mention of IRCA should be made without referrals to its other provision, that granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants then already in the country. While specific limits did apply, up to an estimated three million people was able to benefit from IRCA - and, as cynics as well as supporters would note, the benefits went both ways, for the government, specifically in the form of the IRS, suddenly found itself with millions upon millions of new taxpayers overnight!




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