On October 15, 2009 the House approved by a 307-114 vote the conference report for H.R. 2892, the $42.8 billion fiscal year 2010 homeland security appropriations bill. The bill includes a number of provisions related to immigration, among them a three-year extension of the E-Verify program and three visa programs. E-Verify is the government's voluntary, Web-based electronic eligibility verification program offered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), along with the Social Security Administration (SSA). E-Verify enables employers to compare employee information taken from the Form I-9 against records kept in DHS and SSA databases. The conference report is expected to be considered by the Senate the week of October 19.

The full text of the conference report is available here.

The full text of H.R. 2892 is available here.

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