Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 30.09.1997

Interim Designation of Acceptable Documents for Employment Verification

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) amended existing law by removing certain documents from the list of acceptable documents for use in the employment eligibility verification process. By law, those changes take effect no later than September 30, 1997, and this rule implements those changes. Although the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) is in the process of developing proposed rules to revise and streamline the employment verification process, together with revised forms and guidance, those rules are not yet ready to be promulgated. Thus, in promulgating this interim rule to implement the changes striking certain documents from the statutory list, the Service is also exercising available regulatory authority to restore many of the existing documents, insofar as possible, by designating them to be retained on the list of acceptable documents until further notice. This notice is intended to retain the status quo as much as possible at this time, pending the completion of action on the document reduction program, which will be accomplished in a separate rulemaking action.