Abstract: An employment eligibility verification system is provided which includes an employee database, for storing a plurality of employee records each record having data associated with an employee including an employee hire date and an employee hire status[MTB1], a verification processing system for receiving information associated with at least a first employee record from the employee database and for triggering the initiation of an employee verification process based on at least one of the employee hire date and the employee hire status, the employee verification process including the notification of at least a first attestor to gather employee verification data associated with the at least first employee record. An interface module is provided to receive employee verification data and for submitting employee verification data to a remote verification entity for verification processing.