On October 28, 2009 President Obama signed into law the $42.8 billion fiscal year 2010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill (H.R. 2892 and accompanying conference report). The law includes a number of provisions related to immigration, among them a three-year extension of the E-Verify program. E-Verify is the government's voluntary, Web-based electronic eligibility verification program offered by the 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 and the Senate on October 20.

The full text of the conference report is available here.

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

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