Team VADA eViews
The Digital Newsletter of Your Virginia Automobile Dealers Association
March 2008
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A revised Employment Eligibility Certification (I-9) has been released
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Dealers should be using the revised form
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There is no obligation to complete a new I-9 on existing employees
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has released a new Employment Eligibility Certification, known as the I-9. Employers should now be using the revised I-9.
The reverse of the revised I-9 has three lists of documents that are acceptable to prove identity and employment eligibility: List A that contains documents that establish both identity and employment eligibility, List B that establishes identity only, and List C that establishes employment eligibility only. The revised I-9 eliminates five documents from List A to bring the form into compliance with a 1997 rule that eliminated these documents as acceptable proof of both identity and employment eligibility.
If your dealership has not already changed to the new I-9 it should do so immediately for new employees. There is no obligation to complete a revised form I-9 for existing employees.
In addition, the new form changes the placement of the anti-discrimination notice on the instruction page of form I-9. We have previously written about the need to avoid overreaction by demanding more than is required by the I-9. That can lead to charges of discrimination based on national origin or citizenship status. The revised notice reemphasizes civil rights protections for employees as well as warning about the sanctions for employers that knowingly hire unauthorized aliens.
If you want more information the form and a handbook discussing it are available at
www.uscis.gov.