Greetings Everyone!

Employers: Revised Form I-9 is Now Live!

USCIS published a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility 
Verification. Employers may continue using Form I-9 with a revision date of 
03/08/2013 N. through Jan. 21, 2017. By Jan. 22, 2017, employers must use 
the revised form. 
 
These are some of the changes in the new version:

•	Employees only need to provide other last names used in Section 1, 
rather than all names used. 
•	The certification in Section 1 for certain foreign nationals takes less 
time to complete. 
•	There are additional spaces to enter multiple preparers and 
translators. 
•	There is a dedicated area to enter additional information that 
employers have been required to notate in the margins of the form. 

*The most notable changes are the delineated lines to draw attention to the 
entry fields. The Form I-9 (2 pgs.), List of Acceptable Documents (1 pg.) and 
instructions to guide both the employee and employer (15 pgs.), 18 pages 
total. ALL of these pages are to be presented to the employee during 
completion of the Form I-9. You may laminate the List of Acceptable 
Documents and Instructions or you may keep a notebook with them available 
for view each time an employee completes the Form I-9 instead of printing 18 
pages every time. They have also expanded the instructions for completing 
each section of the Form I-9 and included a list of commonly used 
abbreviations for documents. I strongly encourage you read through these 
and familiarize yourself with the new Form and Instructions.

USCIS offers a widget to add to your desktop: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9

Cathy