Ensuring Legal Authorization to Work in the U.S.
Employment Verification for ICE form I9 Inspections
Employers Should Prepare for Immigration Raids and I9 audits in 2025!
At E Verify LLC, we provide ICE inspection representation and training. An I-9 immigration raid or worksite enforcement action is a serious event where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inspects a workplace for unauthorized workers and compliance with immigration laws. Employers should be prepared to respond to this situation lawfully and responsibly.
Representation in advance of an ICE inspection can avoid technical and substantive errors and needless penalties. Contact E Verify for a consultation to review your workplace readiness. support@everifyllc.com or call 972-270-9933
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Our Key Services
E Verify LLC specializes in training employers to verify legal authorization documents to work in the United States. Our expertise consists of review of existing employer procedures and training. Our investigators are former ICE agents experienced in representing employers for USCIS audits.
Employment Verification
Thorough checks to ensure applicants have the legal right to work in the U.S.
Citizenship Verification
Confirm the legal citizenship status of potential employees.
Document Validation
Verify authenticity of employment authorization documents.
Compliance Support
Guidance on maintaining compliance with employment laws.
Who We Are
Highly qualified and motivated professionals
Our organization consists of experienced former ICE and TSA agents trained in document verification, compliance and ICE investigation procedures. We pride ourselves on providing outstanding customer service in order to mitigate sanctions and penalty while protecting your employee privacy!
Ice substantive penalty to avoid.
Review of your company hiring practices and how best to protect your business is wise. ICE often returns regardless of the audit’s outcome, so take advantage of the NOI to get your immigration house in order:
- Review the I-9s, payroll records, E-verify records, personnel files, training materials, and policies in place so you know what ICE is learning in its audit of your documents.
- Consider conducting your own internal audit (even now, before receipt of an NOI).
- Retrain HR personnel on the proper way to ensure compliance with U.S. employment laws.
- Consider implementing a compliant electronic I-9 software system, understanding that some systems are not legally compliant.
- Consider signing up for E-Verify.
- Regularly monitor decisions by the Department of Homeland Security that revoke the status and work authorization of persons from certain countries.
If a work authorization expires or is revoked, the employee loses eligibility to work in the United States. For example, on June 12, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was sending emails to all Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, who were granted parole into the United States and had received work authorizations, ordering them to immediately leave the country.3 Employers who have employees in this category need to determine if there is any other way for such persons to remain employed lawfully or whether they must terminate their employment. Conversely, deciding that you just will not hire “foreigners” is a form of national origin discrimination and also is a violation of law to be avoided. If you suspect that your business has employed or is employing a person ineligible to work in the United States, consult with legal counsel to discuss how to handle that person’s employment and whether to take the unusual, voluntary step of disclosing the situation to ICE or the Department of Justice.
On January 2, 2025, DHS announced new civil penalties for Form I-9 violations, with increased fines on employers for failure to comply with I-9 regulations:
I-9 paperwork violations: increased from $288 to $2,861 per Form I-9 violation;
Knowingly employing unauthorized employees (first offense): increased from $716 to $5,724 per violation;
Knowingly employing unauthorized employees (second offense): increased from $5,724 to $14,308 per violation; and
Knowingly employing unauthorized employees (third or more offense): increase from $8,586 to $28,619 per violation.
Get in touch
Telephone: +1 972 2709933
E-mail: support@everifyllc.com
Address: 4355 Interstate 30 Suite 102, Mesquite, 75150, Texas, United States