{"id":15875,"date":"2020-08-17T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=15875"},"modified":"2020-08-17T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:36:44","slug":"the-georgia-dept-of-labor-says-it-uses-the-georgia-dept-of-driver-services-to-verify-lawful-presence-of-aliens-who-apply-for-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/the-georgia-dept-of-labor-says-it-uses-the-georgia-dept-of-driver-services-to-verify-lawful-presence-of-aliens-who-apply-for-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Georgia Dept. of Labor uses the Georgia Dept. of Driver Services (DMV) to verify lawful (immigration) presence of aliens who apply for unemployment benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15818\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15818\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/georgia_dol-300x76.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image GA DOL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the DGOL<a href=\"https:\/\/dol.georgia.gov\/faqs-individuals\/individuals-faqs-unemployment-insurance\"> website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Applicant Status Affidavit?<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorgia law requires that all applicants for UI benefits who are 18 years of age or older attest they are:<\/p>\n<p>a United States citizen, or<br \/>\na legal permanent resident, or<br \/>\na non-citizen legally present in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8211;&gt;<\/strong><\/span>The GDOL performs electronic verification of your lawful presence in the United States with the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS). The DDS validates the identity of individuals who indicate they have a Georgia-issued driver\u2019s license or identification card.<\/p>\n<p>If completion of the affidavit is required, you must present valid government-issued picture identification to a GDOL representative to complete the affidavit and have it notarized. If you are not a citizen of the United States, you must also present acceptable, unexpired employment authorization document(s). The GDOL will verify your registration status with the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. You cannot receive benefit payments until your lawful presence in the U.S. is verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the DGOL website.\u00a0 What is the Applicant Status Affidavit? Georgia law requires that all applicants for UI benefits who are 18 years of age or older attest they are: a United States citizen, or a legal permanent resident, or a non-citizen legally present in the United States. &#8211;&gt;The GDOL performs electronic verification of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15884,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}