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Accepted Documents for I-9 Employment Verification

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The I-9 Form is an essential document used to verify an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States.

After completing your photo ID verification, you will be prompted to upload an employment verification document.

You may upload one document from List A, or one document each from List B and List C.

Accepted documents

Driver’s license or ID card issued by a U.S. state or outlying possession (with photo or identifying information)

Social Security card unless it contains one of the following restrictions:

  • Not valid for employment

  • Valid for work only with INS authorization

  • Valid for work only with DHS authorization

Original or certified copy of birth certificate issued by a U.S. state, county, municipal authority, or territory

U.S. Passport or U.S. Passport Card

Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551)

Employment Authorization Document with a photograph (Form I-766)

For individuals temporarily authorized to work for a specific employer due to their status or parole:
a. Foreign passport; and
b. Form I-94 or I-94A with:

  • The same name as the passport, and

  • An endorsement of the individual’s status or parole (not expired and employment not in conflict with any restrictions)

Foreign passport with a temporary I-551 stamp or temporary I-551 printed notation on a machine-readable immigrant visa

ID card issued by federal, state, or local government agencies (with photo or identifying information)

School ID card with a photograph

U.S. Military card or draft record

Native American tribal document

Certification of report of birth issued by the U.S. Department of State (Forms DS-1350, FS-545, FS-240)

Military dependent’s ID card

U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Card

Passport from the Federated States of Micronesia or the Republic of the Marshall Islands with Form I-94 or I-94A indicating nonimmigrant admission under the Compact of Free Association

U.S. Citizen ID Card (Form I-197)

Identification Card for Use of Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179)

Employment authorization document issued by DHS

Driver’s license issued by a Canadian government authority

Voter registration card

For individuals under age 18 who are unable to present one of the above:

  • School record or report card

  • Clinic, doctor, or hospital record

  • Day-care or nursery school record

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