E-Verify Funding Extension Through 2011 Proposed

The House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee unanimously approved a spending bill for the Homeland Security Department yesterday including reauthorization of the cost of the employer on-line work authorization program E-Verify for checking prospective employee eligibility to work in the United States. The reauthorization was requested by the Obama administration through 2012, but the Committee extended the program only 2 years amid hopes for enactment of comprehensive immigration law reform before the 2011 expiration.