Hiring Immigrants
» Hiring Immigrants, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2008
Employers must prepare an I-9 form for every new person they hire, citizen or not. Before an employer can prepare an I-9, the new employee must show he/she is the person he/she says they are and is legally eligible to work in the United States.
If respondent recalled filling out an I-9 form in the last three years.
2. What type of picture ID do new employees most often provide you to show that they are the person they say they are?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Driver’s license | 92 | ||
| 2 | Passport | 1 | ||
| 3 | Other | 4 | ||
| 4 | Not applicable/Haven’t hired recently | 2 | ||
| 5 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 308 | |||
Notes: Ninety-two (92) percent of small employers who recalled filling out an I-9 form in the last three years were most often provided a driver's license as a form of picture ID.
