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A new I-9 form for employers has been developed. Otherwise known as the employment eligibility form, the I-9 form’s revised version is effective April 3, 2009.

At that time, all employers in the U.S. will be legally bound to use the new version.

Any such employers who wish to do so are invited to comment. It should be noted that many firms have already begun switching over to the new forms. Compliance is not mandatory yet, however. As in the past, employers may legally make copies of I-9 documentation, but must file such documentation in a location separate from a worker’s personnel file.

The deadline date represents a delay in the date originally put forward by the U.S. Citizenship and immigration Services following action under the Bush administration.

As a result of efforts by, among others, the new White House under President Barack Obama, the deadline was moved back from February 2, 2009.

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The U.S. Citizenship and immigration Services or USCIS has given employers  a few more weeks to start using the new I-9 form.

Effective April 3, 2009 every U.S. employer will be required to use a revised version of the employment eligibility verification form – more familiarly known as the I-9 form.

According to an interim rule that was published by the USCIS in December, 2008, employers were required to begin using the form on February 2, 2009. That deadline has now been delayed by 60 days.

According to unnamed sources at the USCIS, the delay will provide adequate time to complete a full review of the new form and the employment verification requirements. A notice of the delay will appear in the Federal Register.

Employers are invited to comment on the new rule for 30 days, until March 4, 2009.

A number of employment law and regulatory deadlines set in the last few months of the Bush Administration have been postponed (more…)