Congress Votes to Extend E-Verify for Three More Years

E-Verify is an Internet-based, free program run by the United States Government that compares information from an employee's Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 to data from U.S. government records. If the information matches, that employee is eligible to work in the United States.

E-Verify was to expire in March 2009, lawmakers began working on an extension in the fall of 2008. New Jersey's Sen. Bob Menendez refused to lift a hold he placed on the extension without a massive increase in green cards, so Congress put the E-Verify extension on the shelf until the spring.

Neither action was about mandating E-Verify for all employers. But for the government to be allowed to offer E-Verify for voluntary use, the extensions had to be passed in 2009 and again this month.

The House of Representatives has now approved the extension of E-Verify for another 3 years. The electronic employment verification program, which could have big impact in ending the flow of illegal immigration to the United States, is set to expire at the end of the month, but, now that it's passed through both chambers of Congress, we fully expect Pres. Obama to sign the extension into law. Read More Here

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