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E-Verify BackGround Checks to Experience Partial Outage

E-Verify or I-9 qualification background checks can be an important part of any employment screening program.  As most know by now, the E-Verify I-9 background check is mandated for any employer contracted for work with the Federal government and some state governments as well.

The I-9 verifies that your new hire is eligible to work in the United States.   This is not a preemployment screening check, I would like to remind you.  You must formally offer the position to your employment candidate before conducting the E-Verify background search.

The E-Verify system will be experience partial outages.  Here are the dates–

E-VERIFY PARTIAL OUTAGE — SUNDAY MARCH 28, EARLY MORNING

E-Verify will not be able to automatically approve certain document types between 1 AM and 7 AM on 3/28 due to scheduled downtime on other DHS systems. Transactions which do not require entry of a document number (card number, receipt number, etc.) should not be affected.

Outage Start Time and Date:       0100 EDT, Sunday March 28, 2010
Outage Stop Time and Date:       0700 EDT, Sunday March 28, 2010
Estimated Outage Duration:        6 hours
E-VERIFY PARTIAL OUTAGE — EASTER WEEKEND

E-Verify will not be able to accept initial verifications between 11 PM 4/3 and 5 AM 4/5 due to scheduled downtime on Social Security systems. Cases which have already cleared SSA and gone to DHS will not be affected.

Outage Start Time and Date:       2300 EDT, Saturday April 3, 2010
Outage Stop Time and Date:       0500 EDT, Monday April 5, 2010
Estimated Outage Duration:        30 hours

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.