The federal government has a program that works, and perhaps more impressively, businesses support it, at least to a point.
That program is E-Verify, the primarily voluntary electronic verification service hosted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Kicked off in 1996, it's a system for verifying that a person with a valid Social Security number is eligible for employment in the U.S. It's used mostly to verify that an immigrant is OK to hire.
The USCIS proudly proclaimed that it recently surpassed 500,000 employer/customers, and that E-Verify been used 25 million times.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
