E-Verify Self Check System Introduction

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed a self-checking version of their E-Verify Employment Verification System tool. DHS created the E-Verify Self Check (SORN DHS/USCIS—013 E-Verify Self Check System of Records) to assist US individuals in verifying legal US work authorization.

USCIS E-Verify Self Check will be voluntary and available to anyone who wants to check their own US work authorization status prior to US employment. It also aims to facilitate the correction of potential errors in federal government databases that provide inputs into the USCIS E-Verify Employment Verification process.

When an individual uses E-Verify Self Check, they will be notified either that (1) their information matched the information contained in federal government databases, and they are US work-authorized; or (2) that their information did not match to information contained in federal government databases; this is a “mismatch.” If the information was a mismatch, the site will provide instructions on where and how to correct their record(s).

E-Verify Self Check will be effective March 18, 2011. DHS plans to roll it out in phases. For more information see Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 32 / Wed, Feb 16, 2011.