The persistent problem of undocumented workers presenting plausible (but ultimately fraudulent) employment verification documents to employers has taken a new twist in the COVID-19 pandemic: a rise in imposter claims for unemployment insurance.

Imposter claims are a type of identity theft; someone uses someone else’s personal information, including Social Security numbers, to collect unemployment compensation.…

It has been five years since Save Jobs USA, a group of technology workers who claim to have been displaced by foreign nationals with H-4 EADs challenged the Obama Administration’s authority to enact the H-4 EAD Rule. In the years since that filing, the case has gone back and forth between the D.C. District Court…

A temporary suspension of entry by certain employment-based, family-based, and other immigrants has been enacted. For an analysis of the presidential proclamation suspending that immigration to the United States, please see our full publication here.

On the same day that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recapitulated its usual policies and procedures for dealing with delays in processing extensions and changes of status due to COVID-19, 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives joined the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to urge the Trump Administration to automatically extend work authorization for…

E-Verify has modified its policies temporarily due to COVID-19 as follows:

• Employers must still create cases in E-Verify within three business days from the date of hire.
• Employers should use the hire date from the employee’s Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification.
• Delays in E-Verify case creations are documented in the usual way by selecting

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