Reverification of Temporary Work Eligibility
Who should I reverify? Am I reverifying expiring documents or the employee? Do I reverify expiring driver’s licenses, passports, and Permanent Resident Cards?
The Rules
- An expiring temporary work authorization document (EAD, I-94) must be reverified.
- A lawful permanent resident who presents a Permanent Resident Card for a new hiring or reverification is never reverified.
- List A #3 is a temporary work authorization document for a lawful permanent resident that must be reverified.
- List A #5 is a temporary work authorization document for a non-citizen authorized to work that must be reverified.
- The expiring documents of a U.S. citizen are never reverified.
- List B documents are never reverified.
- The employee being reverified must present an acceptable List A or C document. Do not accept a document for reverification that is not on the Lists of Acceptable Documents.
- Once the employee presents a document for a reverification that is not evidence of temporary work authorization (e.g., Permanent Resident Card, U.S. Passport, unrestricted Social Security card), they are never reverified again.
- Asylees and refugees are never reverified unless they initially present a document with an expiration date that triggers it, like an EAD or a receipt for a lost/stolen EAD.
Pro Tip: When an employee presents a List A combo document (usually #5 but can be #3 for a permanent resident) for reverification, both parts of the combo document (the foreign passport and I-94, stamp, or MRIV) must be unexpired. An expiring passport does not trigger reverification; the expiring I-94 or MRIV does. It is a good practice to also record, somewhere in Supplement B, the expiration date of the foreign passport, to prove that you confirmed that both parts of the combo document continue to be acceptable.