U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 17, 2017, that employers who used Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, downloaded between November 14 and November 17, 2016, should review the forms to ensure that their employees’ Social Security numbers appear correctly in Section 1. The agency said there was a glitch when the revised I-9 was first published on November 14, 2016, whereby numbers entered in the Social Security number field “were transposed when employees completed and printed Section 1 using a computer. For example, the number 123-45-6789 entered in the Social Security number field would appear as 123-34-6789 once the form printed.” USCIS said employers using an I-9 that contains this glitch should download and save a new I-9 at uscis.gov/i-9.
USCIS also said that employers who notice that their employees’ Social Security numbers are not written correctly “should have their employees draw a line through the transposed Social Security number in Section 1, enter the correct Social Security number, and then initial and date the change.” Employers should include a written explanation with the I-9 about why the correction was made.
USCIS said it immediately repaired and reposted the form on November 17, 2016.
The announcement is at https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/whats-new.