Hiring Immigrants
» 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.
2. What type of picture ID do new employees most often provide you to show that they are the person they say they are?
Response | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Driver’s license | 92 | ||
2 | Passport | 1 | ||
3 | Other | 4 | ||
4 | Not applicable/Haven’t hired recently | 2 | ||
5 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
Total (%) | 100 | |||
N | 308 |
Notes: Ninety-two (92) percent of small employers who recalled filling out an I-9 form in the last three years were most often provided a driver's license as a form of picture ID.