E-Verify Loses Reauthorization Amid Government Shutdown

E-Verify, the EB-5 regional center program, and various other immigration programs experienced a lapse in authorization with the most recent government shutdown that began Jan. 20.

Although Congress avoided a longer government shutdown this time around, the agreement to pass another short-term spending bill sets up another potential shutdown in the near future.

There’s an “additional wrinkle” to this particular shutdown, immigration attorney Matthew Galati of Green & Spiegel in Philadelphia told Bloomberg Law Jan. 22. During the last shutdown, in 2013, the E-Verify electronic employment verification program only lost funding temporarily, he said. But this time, its authorization expired ...