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 that will alert you to comply to these new temporary policies.

 Given below is the sample email sent to the I-9 Administrators/Specialists with the information about conveying the COVID-19 changes.

What are the changes implemented in the system?

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A banner has been added to the I-9 Administrator's home page indicating that the COVID-19 Temporary Policies related to Form I-9 are in effect. This banner will not appear once normal operations are resumed.

I-9 Temporary Policy:

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

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