E-Verify, One owner operator How do I verify myself?

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hanklazard

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I did some work for a local municipality as an independent contractor. Before payment they requested that I supply them with e-verify documents.
I am a single owner operator of an LLC with no employees. How exactly do I go about verifying myself? Any ideas? The standard I-9 form has one page for employee and one page for employer. It's unclear how this works if I have no employees and am the sole owner operator.
 
You could do a self-check, which is free, and send that to the city.


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ptonsparky said:
Do you have a Federal ID #? State?

41 years plus in business so e-verify would be a new term for me.
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E-verify has been required for years on every project funded by state/federal tax money that I’ve worked on.


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Well if you're doing work under the LLC, seems as though the LLC has one exempt employee -you the owner. I think the LLC is the employer and you are the employee for purposes of that form.
 
Todd0x1 said:
I think the LLC is the employer and you are the employee for purposes of that form.
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Careful there. Someone is only an employee if they're on the books (and paid) as one. Lots of S-corps and LLCs pay the owners a dividend, not wages.

And I'd say you're not an "independent contractor", you're an LLC. IC usually implies a sole proprietorship where the customer is paying a person. Since it's an LLC, the customer is paying the LLC and I wouldn't expect e-verify to be relevant unless they want to make sure the LLC isn't employing any undoc'd people.
 
I’ve got to do the same thing for a city customer I just picked up. I haven’t had time to do any work for them yet, but do have some work they want done coming up, so I probably need to get around to it! LOL!
 
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