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May 3, 2007
Forty employers are participating in a test of a new photo tool for catching cases in which workers use fraudulent documents to obtain employment.
The new tool is part of the Basic Pilot Employment Eligibility Verification (EEV) system run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The automated EEV system allows employers to check names and Social Security numbers of newly hired employees against government databases to ensure that the name matches the Social Security number and that the Social Security number is legitimate within the system.
Unfortunately, the EEV system cannot detect cases in which workers steal the identity of someone else to obtain employment, because the name and Social Security number used would match those of an actual person in the government's databases.
The new tool aims to address the issue and can be used with card numbers from a secure I-551 ("green card") or secure Employment Authorization Document, both of which include photographs of recipients. When the employer submits a query, the system displays the photo that the government has on file for the given card number, allowing employers to make a visual match of photos.
In a statement before a House committee hearing recently, Jonathan "Jock" Scharfen, deputy director of UCIS, said 40 employers have been testing the new tool since March and that one employer discovered that a newly hired employee had used a fraudulent green card. Scharfen said he expects the new tool will become available to all employers participating in the EEV system this summer.
"The current EEV system is not fraud-proof and was not designed to detect identity fraud," Scharfen said in the statement. "However, the photo tool functionality helps detect identity fraud from a fraudulent document or photo-substituted card because the system-issued photo should be the identical photo shown on the document presented to the employer. Employers noticing any variation between the photo in the system to the photo on the card presented to them are instructed by the system to issue a DHS tentative nonconfirmation and send the case to DHS for further review."
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