Learn to Navigate Form I-9, E-Verify, and Employment Authorization Documents, Ensuring Proper Procedures, Error Correction, and Audit Readiness
The process of employment eligibility verification through Form I-9 is a universal requirement applicable to employees at all organizational levels, from entry-level positions to the highest echelons of seniority. At the same time, because of its ubiquity and seeming simplicity, it also carries a large amount of potentially unrecognized liability for a company. Supplemental programs such as E-Verify offer a method for more certainty in the process, but the program itself can cause confusion of its own. This presentation will help the individuals responsible for employment verification, onboarding, compliance, and the formulation of company policy and procedure to properly navigate the Employment Eligibility Verification process, understand its updates, and navigate E-Verify.
This live webinar will also assist attendees in understanding the ins and outs of Employment Authorization Documents, or EADs, how they work, and common issues surrounding them. By discussing and providing a methodology for conducting internal company audits on I-9s, this presentation aims to help attendees identify problem areas in company procedures, correct errors and mitigate future consequences for the company, and navigate any government enforcement actions brought against them. Improper I-9 systems and procedures can and do lead to hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars imposed on companies in fines, both for those that are too lax in their procedures, and for those that are too strict. With recent updates to procedures and providing alternative pathways for verification, an understanding of what process are allowed when is critical for companies to meet their legal obligations.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe E-Verify and how it is best used in your business.
- You will be able to explain how to conduct an internal audit and have a sample methodology for conducting your own audit.
- You will be able to identify I-9 issues and know how to correct them.
- You will be able to review your internal onboarding systems and policies for issues that could lead to liability.
Agenda
Speakers
Zachary New,
Joseph & Hall P.C.- Partner, Immigration Attorney at Joseph & Hall, P.C.
- Immigration attorney focusing on employment-based immigration
- Manages various practices, including work visa and permanent residency applications, start-up and investor immigration, and global mobility
- Practice also covers employer compliance and litigation immigration issues against government agencies, often representing employers in I-9 audits
- Regularly brings large scale litigation against the Department of Homeland Security and Department of State through a collaboration of lawyers and law firms known as Immigration IMMPact Litigation.
- Earned the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Writes academically on changes in immigration law, and his works have been published in such law journals as the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of law’s Interdisciplinary Law Journal and the Yale Law Journal Forum
- Current member of the Executive Committee of the Colorado Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as a board member and current president of the Colorado Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
- Graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law
Aimee L. Clark,
Clark Immigration LLC- Founder of Clark Immigration LLC
- Two decades of experience helping companies craft immigration plans for I-9 and E-Verify compliance as well as hiring and retaining foreign workers through work visas and permanent residence
- Conducts regular seminars and training on I-9 and E-Verify compliance across the U.S., as well as employment-based immigration including E visas based on investment, F-1 foreign students and J-1 trainees and exchange visitors, H-1B professionals, H-3 training programs, L-1 multinational transfers, O-1 individuals of extraordinary ability, R-1 religious workers, and TN professionals
- Served on government liaison committees with USCIS, ICE, and Department of Labor
- Recognized as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Immigration Law by Chambers USA - Band 1, as a Georgia Super Lawyer, and in the Best Lawyers of America
- Currently serves on the board of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, previously chapter chair of the Atlanta Chapter of AILA, chair of the New Members Division of AILA, and board member of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast
- Recipient of the GAIN Mentor of the Year award, AILA Sam Williamson Mentor award, and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation pro bono award
- J.D. degree, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Can be contacted at 470-485-4664 or aimee@clarkimm.com
