USCIS – E-Verify 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey
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The E-Verify program is great. It's the backup that's lacking. Make it a Federal law to enroll in the
program (no exclusions) and enforce the law stringently through state governance.
The E-Verify program is not as useful as it could be, because you cannot enter a request for verification
of employment eligibility status until after you have already hired a person and cannot take an action
based on the results of that verification if that person is not eligible. The program is useless to the
average employer; i.e. If the results come back that an employee is not legally in the US or is otherwise
not eligible to work within the US no adverse action can be taken against that person after being hired.
This information needs to be available prior to the person being hired in the first place. E-Verify is a
bad program for the employer; if an employer employs a person that is not legally eligible to work in the
US the employer is held accountable by the Government; if an employer fails to verify the eligibility, that
employer is held accountable by the Government; E-Verify is not to be used as a screening tool by a
potential employer; the employer has to have hired the employee before submitting the request for
eligibility; no adverse action may (dismissal, etc.) be taken against the employee based on the results
of the information received from E-Verify. What use is it?
The E-Verify system helps small businesses like ours comply with Federal immigration regulations in an
simple and convenient way. By continuing to provide this service, it will safeguard us small businesses,
ensuring that we remain compliant with immigration laws and for any local, state or federal contract
work we can get.
The E-Verify system is an excellent program for employers. The one problem I have is with your
customer service - needing help with questions-not being able to talk to someone or when I do getting
the right person to give you answers - waiting for a long time to get answers back via email. How are
we able to LEARN more of how to use E-Verify there are many things I still need to know HOW TOO.
The E-verify system works well for me. Do not like filling out surveys. Don't have the time. The
process of new hires is already complicated without adding additional work such as surveys.
The first time I called for assistance, she was going to walk me through but I had to complete another
tutorial before I could address the issue. The home website can be hard to navigate.
The Help prompts in E-Verify are very helpful. Especially in cases where you are presented with an
uncommon ID and are not sure which numbers to enter.
The idea behind this program is awesome and much needed. The idiots that designed it are clueless
however, and the terms - stupid, stupid, stupid.
The initial learning requirements for the administrator was overly complex. The learning and skill test
could and should be simpler.
The initial tutorial was too long/time consuming. In general, it is disturbing to enter & deal with people's
private information online. It is unacceptable, considering the daily security breaches to various online
services. I understand the system as a helpful tool, however the fact that only some employers are
required to use it and not others, makes the whole system ridiculous.
The last email I sent regarding log-in trouble/question was not responded to for a whole month! The
person I spoke with on the phone couldn't help me, and basically told me that he didn't know what to tell
me. By the end I was so frustrated my boss had to create a new account for me because I still couldn't
log on, turns out I had the wrong link - for some reason my link was changed from the general user to
some other type of log in - - if someone had just taken a little time we wouldn't have had to create a new
account for me. Over-all my experience since I started using E-Verify 2 years ago has been very good,
until the issue a few months ago.
The law needs to be changed so that we can check E-Verify BEFORE hiring someone. It is plain
STUPID to do this after you have made the employment offer.
the length of time for a time out should be longer. sometimes interruptions happen during the process
and it's annoying to sign back in and start over.
The limitation on the size of the files for the I-9 supporting documents is very restrictive. It is difficult to
reduce some documents to such a small file size.
The major complaint I have is the password standard. I use E-verify maybe twice a year, which by the
standard means every time I use the system I have to create a new password. It takes me longer to
meet the password criteria than it does to verify a new employee. I find the update 'testing' to be over
simplified, but I suppose that is do to vast capability of your target audience. Other than that I am happy
with the system and feel it meets my local & state requirements. Thank you