The federal E-Verify system operated by the Department of Homeland Security became unavailable midday Oct. 1, 2025, following the government shutdown. While E-Verify appears to be back up and running ...

E-Verify is back online. After a brief period of unavailability due to the ongoing government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) E-Verify program has resumed operations. The ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order requiring all state agencies to verify employment eligibility before hiring workers and to verify immigration status or U.S. citizenship before granting ...

Editor's Note: Congress passed legislation to fund the federal government and President Joe Biden signed it just before midnight Sept. 30. The measure will keep the government open through Nov. 17, ...

As the controversial Trump-era border policy Title 42 comes to a close this week, a group of Republicans are pushing to require employers to use an online verification system known as E-Verify, ...

For more than two decades, employers seeking to stay on the right side of immigration laws have turned to a government program to verify that their employees are authorized to work in the U.S. The ...

Since the inception of E-Verify — the federal government’s largely voluntary employment eligibility verification system — in 1997, lawmakers have proposed making it mandatory for all employers. The ...

A new law in Florida is set to impact private employers significantly, making it mandatory for those with at least 25 employees to utilize E-Verify as part of their onboarding process by July 1, 2023.

Over the weekend, there was a USA Today article giving prime coverage to those who advocated for an E-Verify requirement as part of the economic stimulus package signed into law a couple weeks ago.

When you do business on the taxpayer dime, you ought to be willing to prove you are using the money in legal ways. That’s not a difficult concept. It’s why President George W. Bush was right to issue ...

The high-profile arrest of former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts for overstaying a deportation order has reignited debate over how Iowa verifies who is eligible to work — and ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order on Wednesday that requires all state government agencies and departments to use E-Verify and SAVE to confirm work eligibility and citizenship status ...