Don’ts in Immigration Compliance

Never arrange or motivate employees to provide counterfeit documents, which will trigger legal actions in the future.

Unless you have an approved visa programs never place an order or requirement for employees in other countries.

Do not get involved in transporting workers from outside the United Nations borders or transporting the workers within US unless you are sure they have all the authorized documents in order to receive employment in United States.

Never ever, pay in cash to your workers, never ever pay cash to some workers, and check to some other in the same company. In addition, make sure your company pays compensation and unemployment insurance to your employees.

Never get indulged in activities of providing houses and residential facilities to employees that are not lawfully present in the United States.

Dos in Immigration Compliance

Make sure you take appropriate steps to audit all I-9 forms and timely completion of the same from newly hired employees.

If possible, conduct I-9 compliance as well immigration compliance training at your company and maintain the records of it.

Always adopt and enforce the immigration compliance policy and maintain strict discipline against employees who are in habit of taking shortcuts when certain procedures are required.

Whenever you receive any complaints against the inquiries from public regarding immigration status of certain employees, training your customer service professionals to respond in professional manner will be more beneficial.

Certain procedures and harsh disciplines has to be maintained concerning the identity and social security mismatch issues and similar other no match issues for further avoiding the charges of discrimination.

You can create your own hiring acknowledging eligibility forms where you can ask your newly hired employees to verify for their work eligibility in United States and their commitment to comply with the companies adopted immigration compliance policies.

There are many immigration law attorneys to represent you when you move here so you won’t be taken advantage of. They also help you to register and to help you apply for citizenship. It’s important that you contact an immigration law attorney instead of trying to do everything on your own. Otherwise, you may not understand the laws here.

Immigration law firms also handle the applications and procedures that are involved with naturalization of foreign nationals who want to apply for become U.S. citizens. There are many legal issues associated with this process and if you seek representation from a well known immigration law firm you will be able to gain citizenship quicker and with less problems than someone who was not represented.

One way to become a citizen is to be born in the country in wish you are seeking citizenship from. Another way to become a citizen is to have parents who are U.S. citizens. However, if this is not the situation then you may be able to pursue the process of obtaining citizenship. If a child under the age of 18 years old is adopted by parents who are U.S. citizens then that child can qualify for U.S. citizenship too.

While being represented by immigration law firms you need to get familiar with some of your responsibilities once you become a U.S. citizen. You can be eligible for jury duty, you may be called to join the armed forces, you will need to pay taxes, obey the law, respects others’ rights, and more. Along with these responsibilities you will also have benefits of becoming permanent residents of the U.S. The immigration law no longer exists for you once you become a citizen of the U.S. You will be granted a green card to keep. This green card means that you have completed all the necessary paperwork and have passed the citizenship test in order to become a citizen. You will qualify for loans, employment, and many other benefits that only U.S. citizens have the opportunity to enjoy.

If you don’t follow immigration law while here as a visitor, then you may find yourself in trouble and in danger of being sent back to the country which you can from. Sometimes, if you get into too much trouble, the country can revoke your green card and send you back immediately. If you are wanted in another country for a crime, you may have to leave immediately.

An immigration law attorney is important during the process of becoming a citizen. There are many immigration law attorneys to choose from so you will be able to find one that better suits your individual needs.

Not too awfully long ago, there was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal, and I believe this article was published on May 5, 2011. It was titled “EU Considers New Border Checks – Some Members Seek National Controls to Contain the Recent Influx of Migrants” by John W. Miller. The article cites some of the challenges such as the Tunisia, Libyan, Egyptian turmoil and civil unrest, along with a good number of long-stemming issues with immigrants taking up permanent residence in EU nation-states; “More than 600,000 Libyans have fled” – the article states.

Indeed, that is a scary number, but the numbers just keep increasing at a time when countries of the EU are trying to cover their debt, and get out of financial trouble. Many nations feel completely challenged with the incredible influx of immigrants into their nation especially at a time when most EU nations are trying to recover from the downturn of the economy. Not only are immigrants coming from the Middle East and North Africa, but also non-EU Eastern European nations.

Interestingly enough, we have a similar problem here the United States don’t we? On one hand we have a country next door which is in complete turmoil due to the drug wars, and drug cartels, and almost a failed state. We have another nation which is communist, and we allow refugees to come to the United States as long as they can make it to US soil – in that case they can become citizens. We don’t send them back because many of them claim they are political refugees from Cuba.

In the future, if Mexico collapses economically, and implodes politically those folks coming over the border will also be political refugees. We can’t send them back and still look at ourselves in the mirror because we could be sending them back to their own deaths due to the drug cartels. In fact many former Mexican police officers in border towns have fled to the US and are seeking asylum here. It makes sense that we would take care of them and protect them.

So this is a great debate when it comes to immigration law, not just the United States but also now the European Union. If someone from the Middle East has fled an undemocratic government, the European Union cannot send them back because they could be put in prison, tortured, or even executed by the government of the country they had fled. If you’ve ever wonder why we have these exceptions to our immigration laws around the world, now you understand a little bit better. Please consider all this.