ICE Extends I-9 Compliance Flexibility To August 19, 2020

On March 20, 2020 DHS announced that it would defer for a 60 day period the physical presence requirement to review the employee's identity and employment authorization documents in order to complete Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, for Employers and Workplaces that were working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As an alternative, Employers were permitted to inspect these documents "remotely" and obtain, inspect, and save the employee's identity and employment authorization documents within 3 business days for the purposes of completing Form I-9. As we described on April 22, the March 20, 2020 DHS announcement provided detailed instructions on how the Form I-9 was to be completed based on the remote inspection of I-9 documents. This policy was extended on May 19, and again on June 19, for an additional 30- day period, respectively.