An article by Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic that quoted us a couple times.
A good article, with an interesting point by Julie Pace, a Phoenix employment attorney who fought E-Verify on behalf of the business community and now appears to be not such a fan of designated agents such as ourselves.
She makes the point that DHS has promulgated, in practice, two sets of regulations. One for DA’s and one for those who contract directly with E-Verify. Those who contract with DHS have to use the PhotoTool, she says, and those who don’t aren’t required to keep photocopies of I-551 applicants.
She’s only half right. Designated agents don’t have the PhotoTool available to them at this time, so if you sign up with a designated agent, you won’t have access to the tool, which brings up the I-551 or I-776 document image in the DHS system.
But here’s a lesson to the eight of you that read this blog: Just because you’re signed up with a designated agent doesn’t mean that regulatory requirements are lifted. Go to the higher standard to make the good faith argument when you get audited.
We’ll write about DHS’ efforts to negotiate with state motor-vehicle departments to get driver’s license photos of all licensed drivers to add into the PhotoTool tomorrow.
