This is true guys.  Homeland Security(HS) surprised us yesterday with visit. I work for a company's small site in MA whose head quarter is in NC.  HS person was in plain cloth and he came un-announced and introduced himself to our building security guard. We are in shared building. Visitors usually come to our floor and sign in with our receptionist. But this HS guy asked building security to contact one of the manager from our company. Building Security has me as IT security contact and another lady as facility contact. It is unusual to get a call from building security during the day so, we both went down and introduced to HS guy.  He asked us some questions to verify and finally told us why he is here. He was here to verify one of the staff who is going through H1B process. Our facility manager had no idea what this guy was talking about. She almost screwed this staff's case by sending him back saying contact our HR office in head quarter and this staff is not in the office. Since I went through H1B process myself, I was really surprised with this visit not knowing this is a new process. But, knowing that this will put this staff's case in jeopardy and delay, I butt in and invited him to our floor. We put him in one of the conference room and I explained our facility manager outside the room why he is here for.  We were still reluctant so we asked his identity and business card.  I came out of the room and called HS main #, his DID and his manager to make sure we are really talking to HS.  Receptionist at HS was rude but the manager guy was nice. He also explained that this is new process HS is doing to verify the application.  They have assigned one agent to each area and they will be doing random verification.  HS asked for 3 pay check stubs, wanted to see staff's cube/office and verify home address.  We showed him staff's cube but were unable to provide him paystubs and verify home address as these falls under HR department. HS wouldn’t talk to HR via phone saying in the application there was not mentioned that this is one of the regional site etc. etc. Initially, he had marked the application as "invalid with red ink" but after he saw our office area, staff's cube and my explanation of being regional site, he marked as it " in complete" and give our HR to contact his office within three days. My facility manager is still confused......