The new Form I-9 (revision date 2/02/2009) is currently
scheduled to go into effect on April 3, 2009. The new I-9 form is
available on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
website. The new I-9 and the interim rule creating it were
originally published in the Federal Register on December 17, 2008,
with a correction published on January 16, 2009. However, on
January 30, 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
announced that implementation of the new I-9 would be postponed
until April 3, 2009. Notice of the delay appeared in the February
3, 2009 edition of the Federal Register.
The interim rule alters both the I-9 form and the List of
Acceptable Documents by changing some of the language on the form
itself and adding to and deleting from the List of Acceptable
Documents. In section One, the employee portion of the Form I-9,
DHS has amended the language to include a noncitizen national. A
noncitizen national includes someone born in American
