On October 20, 2009, the Senate approved by a 79-19 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 passed the House on October 15. The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama.

The full text of the conference report is available here.

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

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