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The transaction brings up the Form I-9 of the previous Rehire flow. The Form ID/I-9 ID generated during the Switch to Hire process becomes invalid. In case, if any data is entered & saved in Section 2 during the Hire process, it gets deleted/refreshed. 

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I-9 corrections? 

Correcions are allowed for the candidates when the values in Section 1 have typos. When mistakes are identified while verifying the documents, the I-9 Specialist restarts Section 1 activity allowing the candidate to make corrections. The process might pick up diffrent flows (hire/rehire) when the candidate enters typos in Section 1 and after Section 1 restart when the typos are corrected.

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The system finds a match of this data set (Company-SSN-DoB) and hence treats this as a Rehire situation, activating and assigning the old I-9 ID which belongs to a different candidate. 

Since this is a rehire case, the Section 2 will be in read only mode and Section 3 is open for editing.

I-9 Specialist, while verifying the documents, notices this issue (typo by the candidate, that matches other candidate’s SSN/DOB). He/she offers the candidate to make this correction, by restarting the Section 1. This is done by clicking the “Restart Section1/Section2” button on E-Verify activity.

Select Restart Group as 'Restart I-9 Section 1', enter comment and click Submit.

Candidate, this time enters the correct SSN and DoB. This leads to the combination (Company-SSN-DoB) not matching any already existing combination. This means this is a brand new hire.

The system makes the previously assigned incorrect I-9 ID (incorrect, as it belonged to another potential rehire candidate) inactive. A brand new I-9 ID is associated with this candidate (hire flow).

Since this is a typical hire flow, Section 2 is open to editing.