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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to see your ID.

More specifically, they want to put your driver's license photo in E-Verify, a nationwide database that employers in Arizona must use to check your eligibility for work.

The federal agency is talking with the Arizona Department of Transportation and other states' agencies "to incorporate driver's license photographs into E-Verify," according to a report on E-Verify from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

ADOT spokeswoman Cydney DeModica confirmed Arizona is in early discussions with Citizenship and Immigration Services about using Arizona driver's license photos. No decisions have been made and much more discussion is needed, including on the subject of privacy, she said.

E-Verify uses some photos now — those in a Homeland Security Department database of green cards and employment-authorization documents for non-citizens, said Sharon Rummery, a Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman.

When an employer enters a non-citizen's information into the system to check the employee's eligibility to work in the United States, the photo from the person's green card or other work document pops up on the computer screen.

The employer potentially could spot an illegal worker by comparing the photos: Does the photo on the screen match the card the worker presented? Do the photos show the person who was hired?

The process is a little different for citizens. No photo comes up on the screen because most citizens haven't had their picture taken by a Homeland Security agency, she said.

The agency "wants to add photos from other identity documents listed in the Form I-9 to broaden the scope and effectiveness of the photo screening tool," Rummery said in an e-mail.

The I-9 form is the document employees fill out to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the United States.

The Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce supports the idea of incorporating driver's license photos because it would help fight identity theft, said Paul Parisi, vice president of governmental affairs for the chamber.

Privacy concerns are not valid, he said. People already show a driver's license to police, airport security and many retailers that accept credit cards.

And many people already use their driver's license as a form of ID when they are hired for a new job, he said.