» Hiring Immigrants, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2008

Employers must prepare an I-9 form for every new person they hire, citizen or not. Before an employer can prepare an I-9, the new employee must show he/she is the person he/she says they are and is legally eligible to work in the United States.

If respondent recalled filling out an I-9 form in the last three years.

2a. Would you estimate that at least 90 percent of the new employees use a for picture ID?

Notes: Ninety-eight (98) percent of small employers who recalled filling out an I-9 form in the last three years estimated that at least 90 percent of the new employees used a (response in Q#2) for picture ID.