USCIS Revises Form I-9: Here Are the Changes You’ll See

In April 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released an updated version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

Shortly thereafter, E-Verify and E-Verify+, which also fall under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), underwent minor changes as well.

Here are the details.

Updated Form I-9

The most recent version of Form I-9 has an edition date of January 20, 2025, and an expiration date of May 31, 2027.

You’ll find the following changes on the form:

First, the fourth checkbox in Section 1 has been updated to say: “An alien authorized to work.”

Second, in the list of acceptable documents, the descriptions of two List B documents have been revised.

USCIS also revised the form’s instructions on January 20, 2025. Some of the statutory language has been updated. Plus, the section called the DHS Privacy Notice has been reworked, USCIS explained in an April 4, 2025, announcement.

You can continue using certain other versions of the form until they expire. Those earlier versions have edition dates of:

• August 1, 2024 (this version says it’s valid until May 31, 2027), and
• August 1, 2023 (this version says it’s valid until July 31, 2026 – employers should update their electronic systems with the new expiration date of May 31, 2027).

If you’re using one of those earlier versions of Form I-9, you should watch out for a wording discrepancy between the forms and the citizen status selection on E-Verify and E-Verify+.

On Form I-9, if an employee attests to being “A noncitizen authorized to work,” then in E-Verify and E-Verify+, you should select “An alien authorized to work.”

Additional note: E-Verify+ participants will see the January 20, 2025, edition date and May 31, 2027, expiration date reflected in E-Verify NextGen, I-9NG.

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