Basic Pilot Program

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It all started back in 1986 when the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 came about and it required employers to examine documentation from each newly hired employee to prove their identity and eligibility to work in the United States of America. Through this act, the Form I-9 that many of us may be used to today was created to ensure that all documents to prove work eligibility in the United States were authentic. Moving forward 10 years, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 made it a requirement for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to have three pilot programs that would potentially help find the best way to verify an employee’s employment verification which were: …show more content…

At this point in time, the program had reached 1,064 employers and there were 559,815 reported cases. Fast forward to 2004, and it has been a year since Congress extended the life of the Basic Pilot Program until November 2008, and a new web-based access method was put into and it allowed people to access the program through any computer with internet, and it also included online enrollment, reporting capability, and 23 hours access. At this time, there was an enrollment of 3,478 employers and 757, 342 reported cases. In 2006 North Carolina passed the SB 1523 which required all state agencies, offices, and universities to use E-Verify which applied to all employees hired after January 1, 2007 but for local education agencies it did not go into effect until March 1, 2007. Three years after the extension of the program, in 2007 the Basic Pilot Program experienced greater improvements and was officially renamed E-Verify. Once the program was renamed, the additional features that were added were an automatic flagging system that double-checks data that was entered and it helped reduce data entry errors and mismatches by up to 30%, and photo matching was also added. For the 2007 record, 24,463 employers were enrolled and there were 3,271,871 reported cases. On June 6, 2008, President George W. Bush amended Executive Order 12989 requiring all federal contractors to verify eligibility employment of new hires using the E-Verify system which was scheduled to be in effect by January 15, 2009 but due to a lawsuit filed by multiple parties, the order was not official until September 8,

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