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"Know Your Rights! What You Need to Know about E-Verify. E-Verify is an Internet-based program run by the U.S. Government. Employers use E-Verify to check if employees can legally work. When you apply for a job with an employer that uses E-Verify...

"The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Centerplate Inc., resolving allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Centerplate, based in Spartanburg...

"Pennsylvania House Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) ... has proposed a new bill that would mandate the use of the controversial employment verification program. But Metcalfe is wrong -- all Pennsylvanians should fear E-Verify, which...

USCIS Office of Public Engagement: E-Verify Final Non-Confirmation Review Engagement U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent this bulletin at 01/23/2012 03:18 PM EST Dear Stakeholder- The USCIS Verification Division and the...

USCIS posted this message on October 1, 2013: "E-Verify is currently unavailable due to a government shutdown. While E-Verify is unavailable, you will not be able to access your E-Verify account. As a result, you will be unable to: Enroll any...

"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) advises the public that Public Law 112-176, signed by the President on Sept. 28, 2012, extends the following USCIS programs until Sept. 30, 2015: E-Verify Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Pilot...

"Alabama’s new immigration law brings with it mounds of paperwork and lots of red tape for businesses that want to make sure their employees are properly documented. The headaches come for all businesses, big and small." - Associated...

"[G]rowers say a federal E-Verify mandate would leave crops rotting in the fields. It’s a scenario that’s playing out now in Alabama as sweet potato season picks up in the wake of a restrictive state immigration law passed in June...

"On November 18, 2013, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced the roll-out of a new feature to provide “a critical safeguard to the E-Verify system by detecting and preventing potential fraudulent use...

"Under the current rules, if E-Verify says you’re not authorized to work, you have eight days to visit the appropriate government agency and begin an appeal. If you’re not able to go in time, or you can’t convince the agency that...

"In the first full year of mandatory immigration checks for SC workers, the state cited 323 businesses for failing to comply with the law. None of those businesses lost its license to operate in South Carolina, and none has been a repeat offender...

"Senators working on a sweeping immigration bill will likely abandon the idea of a new high-tech ID card for workers because it’s too expensive, a key negotiator said. That means their emerging legislation, which they’ve promised will...

"A fiscal year 2013 budget brief released by Homeland Security today has some details on the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, and one of the losers is the federal-local partnership known as 287(g) . The administration...

"Over this past weekend, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law Assembly Bill 1236 “the Employment Acceleration At of 2011,” which effectively nullifies the growing patchwork of E-Verify laws, requirements and ordinances...

"Two decades ago, Mi Pueblo Food Center began modestly as a small butcher shop run by an illegal immigrant. Now, the supermarket that caters to the Latino immigrant community has grown into a popular chain of 21 stores in California. But with growth...