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Local employment and immigration law experts break down hiring rules when it comes to immigration status - ABC 10News San Diego

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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Following the ice raid at Buona Forchetta, ABC 10News spoke with legal experts on the verification process for business owners looking to hire new people.

In most cases, a job interview is the first time the person looking for the job and the person hiring meet and see each other.

"Questions that get at national origin before that offer of employment are unlawful,” Taleah Phillips, Employment Law Attorney at Gomez Trial Attorneys, said. "Where you were born, for instance, if you were born outside of the U.S., that's getting at national origin."

ABC 10News spoke with Phillips about what employers are required to do to verify someone's immigration status.

"Federal law does require that employers - once an offer of employment has been accepted - use the form I-9 and, on the USCIS website, there's specific types of verification that can be used in addition to that form,” Phillips said.

"Do you have, you know, any of the documents that are on the list? The employee then provides any of the documents that they have,” Ginger Jacobs, the Founder &...



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