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title: Our company did not personally review I-9 documents during the COVID emergency
description: Our company did not personally review I-9 documents during the COVID emergency – what do we do now?
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# [Our company did not personally review I-9 documents during the COVID emergency](https://ctrhcm.com/blog/i9_document_reveiw)

 Written by [Anne Lavelle](https://ctrhcm.com/blog/author/anne-lavelle) | Jun 7, 2023 6:07:12 PM

Our company did not personally review I-9 documents during the COVID emergency – what do we do now?

 

Employers are required to personally inspect I-9 documentation.  However, during COVID employers were temporarily allowed to remotely inspect required I-9 documentation.  If employers remotely inspected documents during this time period, they now have until August 31, 2023 to inspect the original documentation.  

 

 

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