I-9 TRAINING AND Q&A SESSION
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced that it will audit 652 businesses nationwide to determine if they are hiring employees in accordance with U.S. immigration laws. This is just the beginning. Employers who are found to be hiring unauthorized workers risk civil and criminal penalties. Additionally, efforts are being made in the Texas legislature to allow the State to enforce U.S. immigration laws against non-compliant employers even when the Federal government has chosen not to enforce its provisions. Workforce Solutions will host a joint training session with specialists in the field of U.S. immigration laws.

Topics addressed:

• How to complete the new Form I-9
• How to identify authorized workers
• Employer sanctions (civil and criminal)
• E-Verify and IMAGE programs
• Detecting fraudulent documents
• Independent contractors vs. employees
• No-match letters and their significance

Featured Speaker and author:
Daniel Kowalski, Esq.,
Reina, Bates & Kowalski Immigration Law Group
Daniel Kowalski, a partner in the law firm of Reina, Bates & Kowalski Immigration
Law Group, recently co-authored the book: Immigration Enforcement, I-9 Compliance Handbook, published by Mathew Bender. He is a native of Denver, Colorado and has practiced immigration law exclusively since 1985. After earning his Juris Doctor degree in 1984 from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, Mr. Kowalski began practicing immigration law in Colorado. Since then, he has also practiced immigration law in Seattle, Washington, D.C., and now Austin, Texas. Mr. Kowalski is a member of the Denver Bar Association, the Colorado Bar Association, the Washington Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (former Colorado Chapter Chair; former national Board of Governors) and the American Law Institute. He serves on the Advisory Committee to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. In 1996, Mr. Kowalski became Editor-in-Chief of Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, published by LexisNexis. He also edits the Immigration Law & Procedure: Desk Edition for LexisNexis and is the Online Editor of a free daily website, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin – Daily Edition – www.bibdaily.com.

I-9 Presenter Slides