On January 20, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated the I-9 Form. It can be found here. All U.S. employers must use the Form I-9 to verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for employment in the United States. This includes citizens and aliens. Both employees and employers (or authorized representatives of the employer) must complete the Form I-9.

On the Form I-9, an employee must attest to their employment authorization. The employee must also present their employer with acceptable documents as evidence of identity and employment authorization. The employer must examine these documents to determine whether they reasonably appear to be genuine and relate to the employee, then record the document information on the employee's Form I-9.

Certain employers who choose to remotely examine the employee's documentation under a DHS-authorized alternative procedure rather than via physical examination must indicate they did so by checking the box provided on the form. To utilize this "alternative procedure," employers must meet four requirements:

1. The employer must have performed remote examination of an employee's documents between March 20, 2020, and July 31, 2023, if such employee was employed for the employer during that time;
2. The employer was enrolled in E-Verify at the time the employee completed the Form I-9 for that employee;
3. The employer created a case in E-Verify for that employee (except for reverification); and
4. The employer is currently enrolled in and continues to participate in E-Verify.