The Department of Homeland Security has issued temporary guidelines for Form I-9 requirements during the COVID-19 emergency. As per these guidelines, few system level changes are enabled in the Form I-9 processing. As an I-9 Administrator or as an Authorized Representative, when you are completing Section 2, you will notice additional warning messages and data capturing screens to that will alert you to comply to these new temporary policies.

 A reminder has been sent about these changes to all I-9 Admins via an email By now, you must have received the following email about Covid-19 changes.

What are the changes implemented in the system?

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A new policy has been added under I-9 Admin's task list which appears in the New Hire flow after completing Section 2. This task will not be the part of New Hire flow appear once normal operations are resumed.

You If you are an I-9 Admin/Specialist, you can access this policy via Elasticsearch "My Tasks" as shown below:

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Select "My Tasks" in the category and search for an invitation/invitations. Here we have entered "All/all" as the search keyword. The search results displays all invitations with pending HR tasks.

Scroll through the facets and select "I-9 Temporary Policy" under "Activity Name".

When the invitation/invitations appear in the search results, click on "HR Tasks - I-9 Temporary Policy" link.

Read the guidelines given in the policy, check acknowledge box and click Save button.

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