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Investigations — E-Verify

What was formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is now three organizations within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS):

  1. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  1. U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  1. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

On March 1, 2003, the Homeland Security Act transferred the functions of the former INS from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to the DHS. Presently, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of DHS is the agency that comes  knocking at an employer’s door to investigate compliance with immigration and employment verification laws. The potential fines and penalties resulting from an ICE investigation and the procedures that occur after an I-9 inspection are discussed in Chapter 04: Form I-9.

Notice of investigation

Employers generally will receive a letter from ICE indicating that an ICE investigator will meet with the employer no sooner than three days later and that the employer should have all original I-9 forms, along with several other documents and information, available for the ICE investigator to review. This letter is known as a Notice of Inspection (NOI).  In addition to...


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