Final Rule on Form I-9 Released

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have replaced the interim rule of 2009 with the final rule, effective May 2011.

The Final I-9 Rule states the following:
- Employers are prohibited from accepting expired documents because they are subject to fraud and have the possibility of not having the current status of the bearer.
- Form I-688, “Temporary Resident Card”, and Forms I-688A and I-688B, “Employment Authorization Cards”, are no longer on the list of approved documents. These documents are no longer being issued and therefore are officially expired.
- The new U.S. Passport card and the temporary Form I-551, known as a “Permanent Resident Card” with a printed notation on a machine-readable immigrant visa, are now added to the list of approved documents on List A of Form I-9.

Employers may use either Form I-9 with the revision date of Aug. 7, 2009, or Form I-9 with the Feb. 2, 2009, revision date. The agency stated that the expiration date of Feb. 2, 2009, Form I-9, has been extended until Aug. 31, 2012.

Federal Judge Places Temporary Injunction on Sections of the Georgia Immigration Law

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash granted a temporary injunction on certain parts of the new Georgia Immigration Law on Monday June 27, 2011. Judge Thrash declared the criminal aspect of the law did not coincide with federal law, especially the provisions empowering police to investigate the immigration status of certain suspects and those prohibiting the transport, harboring and enticing of illegal aliens. The E-Verify provisions were not blocked and will go into effect on July 1, 2011.

For more details on blocked and non-blocked provisions email todd@laihr.com.

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