UPDATE: E-Verify to Require Additional Information for New Registrants

by bfancher - June 28, 2010 - 18:27

Today, a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update for the E-Verify Program was made available by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The PIA update describes the additional information E-Verify will require from new registering employers, which will be sent to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), a provider of information on businesses and corporations, and be compared against the D&B database to authenticate the employer is in fact a bona fide enterprise. According to the update, the additional requirements and corroboration by D&B is an effort to reduce the abuse of the E-Verify system by denying access to potentially unqualified or even fictitious employers.

Specifically, E-Verify will now request the following information for new registrations:

•Doing Business as (DBA) name if applicable;
•The DUNS number, a Dun & Bradstreet Identifier, if available. Not all employers will have a DUNS number, and other information such as address and phone number will be used to differentiate similar employees;
•The Administrator’s Name – Links a company to its corporate administrator. This is the new name of the field formerly known as “Corporate Administratorâ€