I-9 form expired — but don’t toss it yet
June 29, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: Applicant background screening, Document retention, Special Report
If you look closely at the upper right-hand corner of the Form I-9, you’ll see it’s supposed to expire today. What should you do now?
An easy answer: nothing.
The current form lists an expiration date of 6/30/09, but last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the form will remain valid after today.
On June 26, USCIS asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approved continued use of the current version. While the request is pending, the form will not expire, despite the date listed at the top of the first page.
When the extension is approved — and a new expiration date is set — USCIS will update the form.
But for now, just keep using the form on the agency’s Web site, dated “Rev. 02/02/09″ at the bottom of each page and the June 30 expiration date at the top.
Note: When the form is updated, it’s unlikely USCIS will make any substantial changes, just add the new dates.
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June 30th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I wonder if anyone at USCIS realizes how stupid it looks having a whole extra page with one paragraph on it, which just happens to be the paragraph titled “Paperwork Reduction Act”. It is laughable that they are wasting another whole piece of paper for each and every person who needs to fill in an I-9 form (or it would be laughable if it weren’t such a terrible waste!). This has to be up there with one of the government’s biggest gaffs. I don’t have any idea how many people are hired in the U.S. every day, but over a period of time, this has to be hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper, if not millions! There were definitely ways to cut down the redundancy on the form, or the way it is titled, that could have saved enough room to put that paragraph on the two pages they already take up with “Instructions”.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
How about… how stupid they look because they can’t make up their mind if they want to continue using this form or make more changes to it. Also… why can’t they get it right the first time instead of making us all wonder what version of the form are we required to use?
July 1st, 2009 at 8:29 am
It took them years to revise to this one, when they disallowed some of the previous List A documents. All they had to do was delete them and re-issue. Why is there an expiration date at all?
July 7th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I don’t give a set of instructions to everyone I hire (which is averages 50 people per month). The requirement is that I have a copy available so I give them a copy separate from the I-9 and collect it back with all of their other papers when they are through. It can then be used for another new hire instead of filed. Of course it was easier to put two sheets back-to-back in a sheet protector so I agree the third page is quite a waste. I always keep a version of the I-9 even after they expire so that if the requirements change I can refer back to the date a person was hired to make sure they were compliant at the time.