DHS may expand temporary policy that allows employers to verify work eligibility documents remotely

Since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the federal government has allowed U.S. businesses to verify potential and current employees’ work eligibility documents remotely, including through email and fax.

While this program has now been extended through the fall, the Biden administration is possibly looking at ways to make a form of it permanent, publishing a proposed rule on Thursday that “could authorize alternative options for document examination procedures with respect to some or all employers,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

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