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05/20/2008 Entry: "E-Verify now to utilize data from Naturalized Citizens"
U.S.C.I.S announced that they will begin to implement new information regarding Naturalized Citizens to the E-Verify employment authorization program in hopes that it will reduce the mismatch rate. USCIS hopes that these changes will streamline the effectiveness of E-Verify Notification, and has claimed that these improvements will help to instantly inform employers if their employee is authorized to work in the United States.
The E-Verify system will now include naturalization data. This will require naturalized citizens to update their records with the Social Security Administration (SSA) or, they may face an SSA mismatch in E-Verify. Additionally, naturalized citizens who receive a citizenship mismatch with SSA will be required to resolve the issue by either calling the USCIS directly or visiting an SSA field office.
Unfortunately, after being run on the E-Verify system, foreign-born U.S. citizens have been found to have a 10.9 mismatch percentage rate compared to just 1.3 for natural-born Citizens. These tentative non-confirmations have had negative consequences for work-authorized employees for two reasons. First, there are very real costs and burdens associated with adverse actions that some employers take against employees receiving tentative non-confirmations (even though such adverse actions are prohibited by statute). Second, there are burdens associated with visiting an SSA office and, generally to a lesser extent, contacting USCIS.
E-Verify will also begin to include real time arrival data from the Integrated Border Inspection System. This additional data source will reduce the number of immigration status related mismatches for newly arriving workers who have entered the country legally.
More than 64,000 employers participate in E-Verify with approximately 1,000 new enrollments weekly. The web-based system allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of newly-hired employees. E-Verify evolved from the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program originally developed in 1997 and made available to employers as a Web-based system in 2004. USCIS operates the program in partnership with SSA.
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