{"id":324,"date":"2024-12-03T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:44:43","slug":"key-i9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/payroll-coordinators\/policies\/form-i-9-policy\/key-i9\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Points for Completing Form I-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university I-9 procedure can be found <a href=\"\/seo\/payroll-coordinators\/policies\/form-i-9-policy\/\">here<\/a>. The following are key points and tips for completing student employee Form I-9s.<\/p>\n<p>If a student has previously completed a Form I-9 at Boston University as a student employee, <strong>they do not need to complete a new one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Student employees must complete Section 1 of the Form I-9 prior to or on their first day of employment to ensure timely completion of Section 2 of the Form I-9.<\/p>\n<p>Students <strong><u>are not required<\/u><\/strong> to fill out the Social Security Number, E-mail Address, or Telephone Number fields in Section 1 of the Form I-9. Note that if the student has not provided their Social Security number during completion of the Form I-9 at any point, they will need to update Student Payroll after hire for tax purposes following our information about <a href=\"\/seo\/payroll-coordinators\/policies\/ssn-sup\/\">students without Social Security numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The student must be present when identification is reviewed during Section 2 of the Form I-9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Employers must complete Section 2 no later than three business days after the student\u2019s employment date. <\/strong>The hiring department will not be able to enter hiring information for a student employee until the Form I-9 has been properly completed.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to complete a Form I-9 within this timeframe will result in delayed payment for the student employee. This is a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.dol.gov\/elaws\/whd\/flsa\/screen74.asp#:~:text=Violators%20of%20the%20child%20labor,conviction%20may%20result%20in%20imprisonment.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can result in prosecution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university I-9 procedure can be found here. The following are key points and tips for completing student employee Form I-9s. If a student has previously completed a Form I-9 at Boston University as a student employee, they do not need to complete a new one. Student employees must complete Section 1 of the Form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":0,"parent":316,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/1796"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}