El Salvador sends more people to the United States than any other Latin American country after Mexico. About 1.4 million Salvadoran-born people live in the U.S., many spurred to come here by natural disasters — a hurricane in 1998 and two earthquakes in 2001.

Of course, people have their own reasons for immigration, and Salvadoran immigration has continued since those events. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Pew Research Center calculates that Salvador-born immigrants in the U.S. increased by 142 percent between 2000 and 2017 alone.

Background checks in India have become more commonplace for U.S. employers.

One reason is that Indian immigrants in the U.S. have increased in numbers in recent years. Estimates are that Indian-born immigrants in the U.S. number as high as 2.688 million, a 13-fold increase compared with 40 years earlier and a 50 percent increase in the past decade alone. Indians trail only Mexicans and Chinese as new arrivals in the U.S. annually, according to the Columbia Business School.

Let’s look at five things U.S. employers should know about background checks in Argentina.

Global Backgrounds offers a complete line of international background checks on Argentine nationals who are in the U.S. already or have applied for work during the process of immigrating here.

If you’re a New York City employer who thinks hiring has become a lot more complicated, you’re right. Laws that have come on the books related to background checks make it incumbent upon the employer to safeguard the rights of job applicants.

Is there a place where hiring is as complicated as it is in New York City? Probably not. The city has sheer size and numbers that make it so, and an economy that’s bigger than what many countries can boast, plus a litany of laws that protect the rights of job applicants.

It shouldn’t be surprising for a Brazilian immigrant to earn an interview with a U.S. employer for a management or professional job, especially in regions of the US like South Florida. According to the Migration Policy Institute, a U.S.-based non-profit that studies immigration, Brazilians in the U.S tend to be better educated than other nationalities from Latin America, and as a group attain a higher level of education than U.S.-born citizens.

Mexico sends a high percentage of foreign-born workers to the United States. Only a professional background search company, such as Global Backgrounds, can adequately verify the value of potential foreign born employees through international background checks.

Mexico, which shares a long border with the U.S., has sent more immigrants to the U.S. than any other country, according to the Pew Research Center, a non-profit U.S.-based fact generator. That means the likelihood of a U.S.company interviewing and finding interest in a Mexican-born job applicant is higher than for almost any other nationality.

Part two of our four part series on employment screening addresses the topic of criminal background checks and how employers can optimize their employment screening procedures.

If you are looking into an individual's criminal record, it's best to take an all or nothing approach.  Either fully commit to checking each possible jurisdiction for possible criminal records, or don't check any at all and operate on faith.  (I don't recommend operating on faith)  Performing anything in between can result in misinformation, a false sense of security and regulatory non-compliance which means serious financial liability for you and your company.