{"id":343,"date":"2021-08-03T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=343"},"modified":"2022-06-04T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T08:57:24","slug":"uscis-updates-form-i-9-lost-document-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/uscis-updates-form-i-9-lost-document-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Updates Form I-9 Lost Document Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. CItizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its Form I-9 lost document policy, allowing workers a 90-day window to present alternative documents to complete the Form I-9 employment eligibility verification process. This will accommodate possible delays of replacement documents, including delays resulting from government office closures due to the pandemic. The employer will need to complete a new Section 2 on the I-9 form, append it to the previously completed form, and provide an explanatory note. The new policy also applies to receipts for lost, stolen, or damaged documents required during the I-9 reverification process, which will require the employer to complete a new Section 3 to record the substitution. See the USCIS guidance\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/i-9-central\/covid-19-form-i-9-related-news\/updated-receipts-guidance\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. CItizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its Form I-9 lost document policy, allowing workers a 90-day window to present alternative documents to complete the Form I-9 employment eligibility verification process. This will accommodate possible delays of replacement documents, including delays resulting from government office closures due to the pandemic. The employer will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}