Here at the Law Office of Vincent Miletti, Esq. and the home of the #UnusuallyMotivated movement, we take pride as a resilient and dependable legal services firm, providing such services in both a traditional and online, web-based environment. With mastered specialization in areas such as Employment and Labor Law, Intellectual Property (IP) (trademark, copyright, patent), Entertainment Law, and e-Commerce (Supply Chain, Distribution, Fulfillment, Standard Legal & Regulatory), we provide a range of legal services including, but not limited to traditional legal representation (litigation, mediation, arbitration, opinion letters and advisory), non-litigated business legal representation and legal counsel, and unique, online legal services such as smart forms, mobile training, legal marketing and development.

Still, here at Miletti Law®, we feel obligated to enlighten, educate, and create awareness, free of charge, about how these issues and many others affect our unusually motivated® readers and/or their businesses. Accordingly, to achieve this goal, we have committed ourselves to creating authoritative, trustworthy, & distinctive content. Usually, this content is featured as videos posted on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvUryqkkMAJLwrLu2BBt6w and blogs that are published on our website WWW.MILETTILAW.COM. With that, the ball is in your court and you have an effortless obligation to subscribe to the channel and sign up for the Newsletter on the website, which encompasses the best way to ensure that you stay in the loop and feel the positive impact of the knowledge bombs that we drop here!

As the authoritative force in Employment Law, it only seemed right to introduce one of the many upcoming series in which we introduce a variety of topics that looks to educate and deliver in a manner that only Miletti Law® can. To that end, this blog is an introduction and Part I of a new series on “Recordkeeping Requirements for Business Immigration Documents.” As a legal firm specializing in, among other legal areas, Employment and Labor Law, we have been creating a diverse but focused range of content to educate, train, keep you informed, and ensure that you, our unusually motivated® readers, stay ahead of the game in matters related to the labor law. Again, this is the primary reason we have dedicated a good percentage of our blogs to looking at every nook and cranny of Employment and Labor Law.

Through this series, we aim to address a number of retention and compliance issues that face employers when it comes to meeting document retention requirements for three key immigration documents including, the Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) labor certification process, the Labor Condition Application (LCA) process, and Form I-9 Eligibility Process.

Form I-9 Eligibility Process

Before we dive right into these requirements, we would like to familiarize ourselves with these documents, particularly Form I-9. For starters, officially known as the Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9 is a form maintained by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This form is used when verifying the legal authorization to work and identify all paid employees in the country as mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Therefore, employers are required to use this form to document that every new employee (whether citizen or noncitizen) hired following the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 is identified and has the legal authorization to work in the country. Accordingly, all employees (whether U.S. citizens or noncitizens) are required, with the help of their employers, to complete this form. Therefore, it goes without saying that it is the employer’s responsibility to ensure that Form I-9, especially Section 1, has been completed appropriately and timely.

In this regard, stay on the lookout for Part II of this new series and our blog titled “Document Retention Requirements for Form I-9,” in which we shall kick-start this discussion by hammering on the requirements for document retention for Form I-9.

In the meantime, stay tuned for more legal guidance, training, and education. In the interim, if there are any questions or comments, please let us know at the Contact Us page!

Always rising above the bar,

Isaac T.,

Legal Writer & Author.