Employers should regularly check E-Verify for authorization status changes, DHS warns

Employers should regularly check E-Verify for authorization status changes, DHS warns

The Trump administration recently revoked work authorization status for more than half a million noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

E-Verify Users Beware: New E-Verify Feature Makes it Easier to Charge Employers with Knowledge that an Employee’s EAD Has Been Revoked

On June 20, 2025, the United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced a new functionality of E-Verify called a Status Change Report. The announcement instructs E-Verify employers to regularly log in to E-Verify to generate Status Change Reports and to immediately begin the reverification process for “each current employee whose EAD the Status Change Report indicated was revoked” within a reasonable amount of time. As all employer…