2009 | Final Rule Rescinding the "Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter" Rule

• Final Rule: "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter: Rescission," 74 FR 51447-52 (Oct. 7, 2009).  "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations by rescinding the amendments promulgated on August 15, 2007, and October 28, 2008, relating to procedures that employers may take to acquire a safe harbor from receipt of No-Match letters." 74 FR at 51447.
  
  

2009 | Proposed Rule Rescinding the "Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter" Rule

• Proposed Rule: "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter: Rescission," 74 FR 41801-05 (Aug. 19, 2009).  "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations by rescinding the amendments promulgated on August 15, 2007, and October 28, 2008, relating to procedures that employers may take to acquire a safe harbor from receipt of no-match letters." 74 FR at 41801.  For COMMENTS on the proposed rule to be considered, they must be submitted no later than SEPT. 18, 2009.
  
  

2008 | Supplemental Final Rule (published Oct. 28, 2008)

• NILC Summary of Supplemental Final Rule (11/24/08, PDF)
  
  

• Supplemental Final Rule: "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter: Clarification; Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis," 73 FR 63843-67 (Oct. 28, 2008, PDF).  "The final rule does not make any substantive changes from the August 2007 Final Rule or the Supplemental Proposed Rule." 73 FR at 63861.
  
  

• How Does the 2008 Supplemental Final DHS Rule about Social Security “No-Match” Letters Affect the Federal Lawsuit and Injunction? (NILC, 10/23/08, PDF)|
  
  

• FACTS ABOUT: U.S. Department of Justice Guidance for Employers Following the Department of Homeland Security's No-Match Letter–related Safe-Harbor Rule (11/08, PDF)
  
  

• Antidiscrimination Guidance for Employers Following the Dept. of Homeland Security's Safe-Harbor Procedures (Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, 73 FR 63993-94 (Oct. 28, 2008, PDF).)
  
  

• DHS PRESS RELEASE:"DHS Issues Supplemental Final Rule with Guidance for Employers Who Receive Social Security 'No-Match' Letters" (10/23/08, PDF)
  
  

• Text of Supplemental Final "No-Match" Letter Rule (as issued by DHS on 10/23/08, PDF)