The USCIS requires employees to present present documents that show proving their identity and employment authorization within three business days of the their employment start date. If notthey are unable to do so, they must must present an acceptable receipt replacing the documentas a temporary replacement. The employer completes can complete Section 2 by recording the receipt details and skips mark the E-Verify activity by marking it as complete. When Once the actual document is provided by the employee, the employer updates should update the receipt with the actual document and proceeds to complete the E-Verify process.

Receipts are only valid only for a short period of time. Before the document validity expires, the employee must produce . Employees must provide the replacement document for which the receipt was givenissued before the receipt's validity expires.

How

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to complete Section 2

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with receipt details?

To access pending Section 2 activity, navigate to My Tasks console and click the Complete I-9 link for any Employee Onboarding process. 

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the selected transaction.

Enter the receipt details in List A or List B & List C.

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In this example, List A document is selected.

In the Additional Information enter if any note/comment has to be added.

If an alternative procedure is used for remote verification of documents, indicate this by selecting the "Check here if you used an alternative procedure authorized by DHS to examine documents" checkbox. Note: This alternative process is allowed exclusively when the Legal Entity (Company/Business Unit) responsible for the employee's hiring is registered for E-Verify, which means the Company or Business Unit has been configured in the DHS Client Setup. If the legal Entity (Company/Business Unit) is not enrolled in E-Verify, this checkbox will appear disabled. When this checkbox is selected, attaching supporting documents in Section 2 is mandatory.

To know more about uploading attachments in Section 2, please click here.

Note: If Section 2 is assigned to a remote user, and the checkbox indicating "Check here if you used an alternative procedure authorized by DHS to examine documents" is checked by the remote user in Section 2, they must upload supporting documents when completing the Section 2 activity if no attachment is provided in Section 1. The I-9 Specialist does not need to add the attachment while completing the Section 2 review unless they delete the attachment uploaded by the remote user. In this case, the system will prompt for the attachment during the completion of the Section 2 review.

If the alternative procedure checkbox is selected and no attachment is provided in Section 2, the page will show the following error message upon saving the activity.

Note: Even if the checkbox labeled "Check here if you used an alternative procedure authorized by DHS to examine documents" is not checked, you may still be prompted to upload attachments in Section 2, especially if attachments are configured as mandatory for I-9 activities.

After entering all the details, check "I Agree" and click "Electronically Sign".

You cannot proceed with E-Verify case creation and if receipts exists in Section 2.  You must wait until actual documents are provided for which the receipt was presented. Choose "Mark as Complete" on the E-Verify page.

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to update receipt with the actual document?

When the employee provides the actual document for which the receipt was presented, initiate the Receipt Update process from within the I-9 Console/Elasticsearch Keyword Search Life Cycle actions and enter the actual document details in I-9 Section 2.  Please refer to this link - Initiate Receipt Update Process for more details.For more details on the receipt update process, please click here.