Thread: 188,358 Businesses Using E-Verify - Gen. 5M Inquiries

Several states have passed legislation requiring employers to use E-Verify. E-Verify is an employment verification tool managed by the Department of Homeland Security that uses information from the Social Security Administration and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to determine an applicant's eligibility to work.


188,358 Businesses Using E-Verify - Generating 5 Million Inquiries Since October

Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:03 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security reveals that 188,358 businesses are using E-Verify at nearly 700,000 worksites. More than 50,000 businesses have signed up for E-Verify in the last six months and the number of worksites has almost doubled since January of 2009.

The number of inquiries since October of 2009 is 5.1 million. There were approximately 6 million total inquiries in all of 2008.

Arizona has the largest number of businesses using E-Verify with 33,110 businesses at 58,871 worksites. Arizona requires all businesses - public and private - to use E-Verify. Mississippi and South Carolina also have mandatory E-Verify laws in place for all businesses and have 3,039 and 4,346 businesses registered, respectively.

California has the largest number of worksites using E-Verify with 15,320 businesses using the system at 71,033 worksites. There have been 642,912 inquiries in California, second most in the nation. Missouri businesses have run 890,701 inquiries since October of 2009, most in the nation. Missouri requires all state agencies and contractors to check new hires through E-Verify.

See a map of states with mandatory E-Verify laws in place.

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Related:
E-Verify Participating Employers by State
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-189169.html

DHS to display info on Federal Contractors using E-VERIFY
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-189159.html

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JohnDoe2 wrote:

"This article was posted earlier as a comment to

DHS to display info on Federal Contractors using E-VERIFY

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject: 188,358 Businesses Using E-Verify - Generating 5 M. Inquires

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And if you had reported this to the moderators, they would have removed my duplicate post, thus solving this problem.

texas2step

Originally Posted by Texas2step

JohnDoe2 wrote:

"This article was posted earlier as a comment to

DHS to display info on Federal Contractors using E-VERIFY

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject: 188,358 Businesses Using E-Verify - Generating 5 M. Inquires

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-189159.html"

Reply:
And if you had reported this to the moderators, they would have removed my duplicate post, thus solving this problem.

texas2step

i saw the report and did not remove it. since its at the beginning of the post here