Thread: DHS boosts E-Verify with links to passport photo database

DHS boosts E-Verify with links to passport photo database

New program will check passport photos for 10 percent of E-Verify applicants

â—¦By Alice Lipowiczâ—¦Nov 12, 2010

The Homeland Security Department has begun a program that links its E-Verify employment verification system to the State Department’s passport database to verify the authenticity of passport photos presented as proof of identity.

E-Verify is a system jointly operated by DHS and the Social Security Administration. Employers submit prospective employees’ Social Security numbers to verify the employees’ eligibility to work. If there is a match, the employee is deemed eligible. If there is no match, there are detailed procedures for adjudication.

For the 10 percent of the prospective employees who provide U.S. passports or U.S. passport cards as proof of their identity, E-Verify will now scan the passport photo to determine if it matches the photo on record at State, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Nov. 10.

Including U.S. passport photo matching in E-Verify will enhance our ability to detect counterfeit documents and combat fraud,â€

However, critics have said that E-Verify is not effective in identifying fraudulent use of Social Security numbers

Let me guess who the critics are Ah! Ah! La Raza!
Give this young man a cookie.

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

However, critics have said that E-Verify is not effective in identifying fraudulent use of Social Security numbers

Let me guess who the critics are Ah! Ah! La Raza!
Give this young man a cookie.

Thanks for the laugh