Employees on payroll vs. employees counted with affiliates
The form asks two different headcount questions: the company’s current U.S. employees, and whether it has 25 or fewer full-time equivalents counting affiliates and subsidiaries. Software often answers both from the payroll number.
Company income from the wrong year, or rounded
Financial statements put two years side by side, and a loss year in parentheses. A tool can take the earlier column, read the loss as income, or round the cents away.
The offered wage, in its own period
The job offer gives an hourly rate, the worker’s current pay stub shows another, and the form asks for the period next to the amount. Software can take today’s pay, or turn an hourly rate into a yearly figure.
A question that only follows a “No”
Hours per week are asked only when the position isn’t full-time, as the form says. The offer letter states 40 hours anyway, and autofill puts it in the box.
The latest arrival, not the first I-94 on file
Clients keep old I-94 printouts and expired passports. A tool can copy the first record it reads, so the arrival date, I-94 number and passport come from a trip years ago.