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On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced their intent to relax the requirements for performing in-person verification of documents presented for Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, given the challenges employers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, ICE has extended this policy multiple times, with the current end date set for March 31, 2021. While the federal agency may extend the policy beyond March 31, 2021, employers may want to check whether the flexible rules continue to apply to their worksites and to implement compliance steps when in-person onboarding and verification resumes. In addition, certain temporary ICE accommodations for I-9 compliance have expired. Throughout the pandemic, DHS has announced extensions of the modified I-9 verification policy just a few days prior to the then-current policy’s expira
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: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget announced that the long-pending rule to rescind work authorization for certain H-4 holders has been withdrawn. The withdrawal means that H-4 holders whose spouses have reached certain steps within the employment-based green card process can continue to file for Employment Authorization Documents (EADs).
After a multiple-year undertaking to rescind work authorization for certain H-4 spouses, the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed on January 25, 2021 that it has officially withdrawn the proposed rule that sought to rescind this class of work authorization. The regulation promulgated in 2015 allows an H-4 holder to file for a work permit (EAD) if the H-1B spouse is the beneficiary of an approved I-140 petition and cannot adjust status due to per-country limitations or if the H-1B spouse has been granted a post-sixth year H-1B extension of stat
America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.