Form I-9 and E-Verify: Staying Compliant - SHRM Accredited

Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance is more complex than the online videos from DHS suggest. They cover the basics, but hundreds of technicalities are left out, from what a non-citizen national is to when an H-1B worker changing jobs can start with a new employer and which documents prove authorization. Many rules aren't spelled out in the law or USCIS regulations at all.

ICE has stepped up audits of companies suspected of hiring unauthorized workers, and employers can be fined even when every employee is authorized to work. This 60-minute webinar reviews the penalties ICE and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) can impose, paper versus electronic I-9s, the form's smart features, and the missteps employers commonly make.

• Conduct a self-audit of your I-9s and I-9 practices
• Complete Form I-9 correctly and avoid common mistakes
• Verify documents lawfully without asking for too much
• Handle reverification, returning workers and automatically extended EADs
• Copy, store, retain and purge I-9s correctly, on paper or electronically
• Determine when E-Verify is voluntary and when it is mandatory

• Penalties ICE and the Office of Special Counsel can impose
• Paper vs electronic I-9 forms and the form's smart features
• Conducting a self-audit of your I-9s and practices
• Common completion mistakes and best practices
• Legally acceptable ways to verify documents
• Reverification for non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents
• I-9s for returning workers
• New hires with automatically extended employment authorization documents (EADs)
• Copying and storing I-9s, and whether to photocopy supporting documents
• When it is safe to purge old I-9s
• Avoiding hiring unauthorized workers, and what not to say in job ads
• Balancing vigilance with not requesting too much or impermissible information
• E-Verify: a federal program not mandatory under federal law
• FAR E-Verify requirements for federal contractors
• States where E-Verify is mandatory

If an I-9 is completed incorrectly, the employer carries the blame. This session helps you build reliable practices for completing, verifying, storing and auditing I-9s, and for asking for enough documentation without requesting too much.

It is for anyone who completes or signs Form I-9, including HR, payroll and accounting managers, CFOs and controllers, employers and business owners, and E-Verify users.

• CFOs 
• Payroll and Accounting managers 
• Payroll Processing Professionals 
• Employers and Business Owners 
• Human Resources Specialists and Managers 
• E-Verify Users 
• Payroll Professionals 
• Tax Professionals
• Accountant
• Controllers

Bruce E. Buchanan is a founding partner at Sebelist Buchanan Law PLLC with offices in Nashville and Atlanta, where he primarily represents employers in all aspects of immigration law, with a special emphasis on employer immigration compliance, as well as employment/labor law matters. Additionally, he is "Of Counsel" to Siskind Susser concerning employer immigration compliance matters.

Mr. Buchanan received his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1982. He served as senior trial specialist for the National Labor Relations Board for 20 years. Mr. Buchanan also served for 12 years as Adjunct Professor at William H. Bowen UALR School of Law. He went into private practice in 2003 and formed his own law firm in late 2015.

Mr. Buchanan authors his own blog on employer immigration compliance for ilw.com, located at www.employerimmigration.com and is a monthly contributor to HR Professionals Magazine. He is also the editor of the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Law Section Newsletter and past-Chair of the TBA's Immigration Law Section. Mr. Buchanan is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Arkansas, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and D.C. Circuits.