This option can be used to automatically update Section 2 EAD expiration date for the employee transactions who received automatic extension to their expiring EADs for 180 days. The EAD auto extension details includes two setup options:

• Enable EAD Auto Extension Auto Create - Check this checkbox if you wish to schedule a batch process to run on recurrence for auto creation of EAD auto extension process.
• Summary Digest Notification Pool - Contains a list of contacts for sending email notification when auto creation of EAD auto extension process is triggered. 
  
  

When the auto creation process AE for EAD Auto Extension is enabled, it runs an AE for auto extending the EAD expiration date of eligible transactions. The process lauches an additional invitation that has the I-9 Specialist facing Section 2 activity with expiration launches invitations for the I-9s that are eligible for auto extension and opens Section 2 activity for the I-9 Specialists in edit mode with EAD expiry date extended to 180 days. The I-9 Specialist has to then review all these transactions and electronically sign the Section 2 activity.   

How to enable EAD Auto Extension Auto Create process?

...

This enables an AE that can be scheduled to run every night for auto extending employee's EAD expiry date to 180 days.

For sending emails to users when this process is triggered, click on the lookup icon and select participant pool.

If you want to setup other processes (Reverification/Receipt update or both), enter those details as well. Click Save.

The list of contacts specified in the notification pool will receive the following email with the total I-9s that are auto extended.

What transactions are eligible for auto create EAD auto extension?

...

a) In List A or List C the Document Title must be Employment Authorization Document (EAD)

When the Document Title is EAD, an additional field is populated in Section 2 to capture the category codes. Selecting this field is optional. For the transaction to be eligible for EAD auto extension, having a value in this field is a must. 

...

The value of the Category Code is carried forward to all the pages where Section 2 details are printed such as in E-Verify pages (Create Case page, Mark as Complete page, Unconfirmed Data page), Section 3 pages and in I-9 Master. If Section 2 is completed without selecting a value in category code, the field value displays as "N/A" in all the above mentioned pages. Also, the transaction with N/A category code is not eligible for EAD auto extension.

C) EAD expires in two days compared to current date

Below example shows the expiration date of candidate's EAD.

How do you run EAD Auto Extension process?

When AE for EAD Auto Extension is run, it launches invitations for the I-9s that are eligible for auto extension and opens Section 2 activity for the I-9 Specialists in edit mode with EAD expiry date extended to 180 days. To setup AE, follow the steps given below.

Navigate to People Tools >> Process Scheduler >> System Process Requests. Click Add a New Value.

...

 Enter a Run Control ID. Click Add.

...

Click Run to submit the process request.

...

Select the process and click OK (given at the bottom of the page). 

...

You will notice the Process Instance number generated for this.

...

Navigate to Process Monitor (Main Menu >> People Tools >> Process Scheduler >> Process Monitor) to view the process details.

You will notice the process in Queued/Processing status when it is running and then changes to Success after it is run successfully.

...

Email notification will be sent to the contacts specified in the participant pool.

...

How do you  How do you complete Section 2 for EAD auto extended transactions?

The EAD auto extended transactions show under My Tasks Console and in Elasticsearch My Tasks Category for the I-9 Specialist as "I-9 Section 2 Correction Reason" activity. Click on Section 2 correction link.

...

. Such transactions will have the Business Process as 'Sec-2 Corr|Receipt Upd|EAD Ext'. 

Section 2 opens up with 180 days added to the previous expiration date. Note that the "I-9 Section 2 Correction Reason" is automatically completed with reason as "EAD Auto Extension". Since the E-Verification is already completed with the primary process, the E-Verify option here is not selected.

The completed activity of the Reason page shows as below.

Note that the additional information field has data populated from the primary flow. And the document expiration date is populated with 180 days added to the previous expiration date.

Review the extended expiration date and electronically sign Section 2.

After completing this process, the extended expiration date in Section 2 is updated as WAE date in I-9 Master (irrespective of "Work Authorization Until Date" entered in I-9 Section 1).