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The Current E-Verify System: Past Program Enhancements
Under USCIS management and in cooperation with SSA, E-Verify is
continuing to work to improve processes to decrease mismatch rates,
ensure that E-Verify is fast and easy to use, and protects employees=92
rights. FY 2008 improvements to the E-Verify program included
instituting a system change to reduce typographical errors,
incorporating a photo screening tool for DHS documents in order to
combat certain instances of document fraud, establishing a Monitoring
and Compliance Branch to oversee that employers are using E-Verify
correctly, and adding new databases that are automatically checked by
the system to further reduce initial mismatches. In addition, E-Verify
established a new process for employees to call a USCIS toll-free
number to address citizenship mismatches as an alternative to visiting
SSA. All these efforts are targeted at establishing efficient and
effective verification.
E-Verify is the most accurate and efficient way to verify employment
authorization.
In September 2007, E-Verify instituted an additional automatic flag to
the user that allows employers to double-check the data they entered
into the system for those queries that are about to result in a
mismatch. This has reduced data entry errors and thus initial
mismatches by approximately 30 percent.
The 2007 Westat Corporation independent evaluation found that a large
portion of the employees who successfully contest an SSA TNC are
recently naturalized citizens. As of May 2008, the number of these
citizenship mismatches has been reduced by approximately 39 percent, a
considerable reduction, as we have reworked the system so that it now
automatically checks USCIS naturalization data before issuing a
citizenship status mismatch. In addition, employees who receive a
mismatch with SSA due to citizenship are now able to contact USCIS via
a toll-free number to contest the finding, address the discrepancy,
and verify their work authorization. This process has reduced walk-ins
to SSA field offices for E-Verify citizenship mismatches by 56
percent. Of those individuals who call USCIS to address a mismatch
based on citizenship status, over 90 percent are successfully resolved
by USCIS as work authorized. USCIS and SSA are also exploring further
enhancements, including a direct data share initiative that would
update SSA=92s database with naturalized citizen information.
E-Verify also added the Integrated Border Inspection System (IBIS)
real time arrival and departure information for non-citizens to its
databases as of May 2008, which reduced E-Verify mismatches that had
resulted from delays in data entry into the system that E-Verify also
uses for non-citizen arrival information. The addition of this data to
the E-Verify system is reducing hundreds of mismatches that occur for
newly arriving workers who enter the country legally and start working
immediately.
In December 2008, DHS signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the
Department of State (DOS) to share passport data and photographs from
the DOS=92 records. In February 2009, USCIS began incorporating passport
data into E-Verify in order to check citizenship status information in
the event of a mismatch with SSA. Passport data is reducing the number
of mismatches issued to naturalized and derivative citizens (citizens
who did not personally complete the naturalization process, but
derived citizenship from their parents) who present a U.S. passport
during the Form I-9 process, which involves the new hire filling out a
form attesting to their work authorization eligibility and presenting
the requisite documents. To date, over 295 queries that would have
received TNCs under the previous procedures have been automatically
verified as employment authorized as a result of this enhancement.
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