On April 16, 2009, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the effective date of the Federal Contractor E-Verify Rule will be delayed until June 30, 2009. To that end, the federal government will include the new E-Verify clause in affected contracts on or after June 30, 2009. The government will also take steps to reach out to affected contractors to bi-laterally modify existing affected contracts on or after that date.

On June 6, 2008, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13465, entitled “Economy and Efficiency in Government Procurement through Compliance with Certain Immigration and Nationality Act Provisions and the Use of an Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification System.” Three days later, the Secretary of Homeland Security designated the E-Verify system as the system to be used by federal contractors to satisfy the Executive Order’s mandate. The final rule requiring certain federal government contractors to use the E-Verify system to confirm their employees’ eligibility to work in the United States was first published by the Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the Federal Register on November 14, 2008. It was scheduled to go into effect on May 21, 2009.

Notice of the delay until June 30, 2009 is expected to be published in the April 17, 2009 edition of the Federal Register.

This entry was authored by Lisa Cottle.