Form I-9 Common Mistakes

USCIS recommends that employers review the Employee Information and Attestation area in Section 1 for two common mistakes employees make:

• Falsely attesting to being a “citizen of the United States”
• Choosing “noncitizen national of the United States.” Only individuals born in American Samoa, certain former citizens of the former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and certain children of noncitizen nations born abroad should choose this attestation.

Employers must always provide the Form I-9 instructions to employees. When an employee selects the noncitizen national of the United States attestation box, ensure that the employee has reviewed the definition, item #2 in the Attestation section on page 3 of the instructions.

Other common I-9 errors are noted here:

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Review other recent I-9 updates here:

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