In the fall of 2008, Pres. George W. Bush signed an executive order requiring all businesses contracting with the federal government to screen new hires using E-Verify. The workplace verification tool administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services verifies an employee's identity with federal data. Independent studies show E-Verify to confirm 96% of all cases.
Pres. Bush later delayed the mandatory usage of E-Verify while legal objections were getting resolved. It has been delayed two more times under Pres. Barack Obama.
Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act requires the mandatory nationwide use of E-Verify for all private and public employers.
Updated Saturday, October 4, 2008, 9:30 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA
On September 27, the Senate cleared a Continuing Resolution (CR; H.R. 2638) that, among other things, extends the E-Verify program through March 6, 2009. The inclusion of a short-term E-Verify extension in the CR was a bittersweet development. Although E-Verify will survive for four more months, the reauthorization battle will need to be fought all over again with a new President in the White House who may or may not support the program.
With the exception of pro-forma sessions in the Senate, Congress will be in recess until January. Member left town without passing H.R. 5882, which would have added an additional 550,000 permanent green cards next year, H.R. 5924, which would add 20,000 additional foreign nurses per year for three years (plus their families), or H.R. 6020, the military amnesty bill.
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