

Some employees (including lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees) may present documents with an expiration date. For examples of acceptable employment authorization documents issued by the Department of Homeland Security (List C #7), please see 12.3 List C Documents That Establish Employment Authorization. For a list of acceptable receipts for Form I-9, see below as well as Table 2 in Section 4.4, Acceptable Receipts. You also cannot accept receipts if employment is for less than three business days. You cannot accept a receipt showing the employee has applied for an initial grant of employment authorization. Do not require an employee who presents List B and List C documents to present a List A document. Do not require an employee who presents a List A document to present List B and List C documents. We do not expect you to be a document expert, but we do expect you to accept documents that reasonably appear to be genuine and to relate to the person presenting them.Īn employee must present a document or combination of documents from List A (which shows both identity and employment authorization) or one document from List B (which shows identity) and one document from List C (which shows employment authorization) or an acceptable receipt for those documents within three business days of the date work for pay begins. However, this section does not provide all of the variations of a particular document, and new versions of a document may become available after we publish this handbook. This section provides many samples of documents from the Form I-9 Lists of Acceptable Documents that an employee might present to establish their employment authorization and identity.
