USCIS and Mississippi Implement New E-Verify Tool to Combat Fraud (Driver's Licenses)

USCIS and Mississippi Implement New E-Verify Tool to Combat Fraud (Driver's Licenses) Will improves Accuracy and Integrity of E-Verify by Validating Driver’s License Data.. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today launched Records and Information from DMVs for E-Verify (RIDE), a new feature which allows USCIS’s E-Verify program to validate the authenticity of Mississippi driver’s licenses used by employees as Form I-9 identity documents. “RIDE reflects our commitment to continually improving E-Verify,” said USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas. “This important enhancement strengthens E-Verify’s anti-fraud capabilities and will play a key role in helping employers in the U.S. maintain a legal workforce.”

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E-Verify works; let's use it

E-Verify works; let's use it... The Social Security numbers and alien identification numbers of new hires are checked against Social Security Administration and DHS records to weed out fraudulent numbers and help ensure that new hires are legally authorized to work in the U.S...E-Verify has proved to be much more reliable than the current paper-based, error-prone I-9 system. Under the I-9 system, the employer only has to attest that an identification document "reasonably appears on its face to be genuine." The problem is that fake documents are produced by the millions and can be obtained cheaply. This has undermined the I-9 system.

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