Guide to the H|2A Visa Program in 2024

Guide to the H-2A Visa Program in 2024 - Farmer Law PC

The H-2A Visa Program is designed to address the challenges faced by American farmers in filling their employment gaps.

H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers - USCIS

The H-2A program allows US employers or US agents who meet specific regulatory requirements to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary ...

H-2A Visa Program For Temporary Workers - Farmers.gov

The H-2A temporary agricultural workers program – often called the H-2A visa program - helps American farmers fill employment gaps by hiring workers from other ...

H-2A Employer's Guide to the Final Rule “Improving Protections for ...

On April 26, 2024, the Department of Labor announced a final rule, “Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United ...

H-2A: Temporary Agricultural Employment of Foreign Workers

Section 218 of the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the lawful admission into the United States of temporary, nonimmigrant workers (H-2A workers) to ...

H-2A Visa Program: Agencies Should Take Additional Steps to ...

The H-2A visa program was created to allow U.S. agricultural employers to fill jobs on a temporary basis provided that workers in the U.S. are ...

Department of Labor Finalizes New H-2A Regulations

The H-2A program is a visa program for temporary and seasonal agricultural workers authorized through the Immigration and Nationality Act. The ...

Farmers Guide to the H-2A Visa Program - MU Extension

The H-2A Agricultural Guest Worker Program, often called the H-2A visa program, helps employers hire foreign workers for temporary agricultural jobs.

Guide to the H-2B Visa Program in 2024 - Farmer Law PC

The H-2B visa program is a popular route through which qualified and eligible foreign workers are connected with employers to fill diverse roles across various ...

The Expanding Role of H-2A Workers in U.S. Agriculture

The H-2A Temporary Agriculture Worker Program allows US employers that face a shortage of domestic workers to hire foreign nationals for temporary or seasonal ...

Create Your H-2A Visa Checklist - Farmers.gov

The H-2A temporary agricultural workers program - often called the H-2A Visa Program - helps American farmers fill employment gaps by hiring workers from other ...

H-2A Employer Data Hub | USCIS

The H-2A program. ... The H-2A Employer Data Hub includes data from fiscal years 2015 through 2024 (quarter 4) on petitioners who submitted petitions to ...

H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Visa, Explained - Boundless

The H-2A program was first instituted to provide agricultural employers with a larger pool of workers during periods of anticipated labor shortages.

The “Modernized” H-2A Program - What Every Agricultural Business ...

Currently, H-2A workers are allowed to enter the United States one week prior to the start date of their H-2A visas, allowing them to get ...

H-2A Guestworker Program - Farmworker Justice

The H-2A guestworker program allows agricultural employers to hire workers from other countries on temporary work permits for agricultural jobs that last ten ...

Whither the H-2A Visa Program: Expansion and Concentration

The H-2A visa program allows farm employers in the United States to hire guest workers to fill seasonal farm jobs if employers can demonstrate that US workers ...

Featured Issue: Resources for H-2A Practice at DOL, USCIS, and DOS

The Seasonal Visas: H-2A and H-2B: Temporary Yet Essential Workers Immigration Practice Pointers, 2024-25 Ed. (AILA 2024) by Loan T. Huynh, L.J. ...

Foreign agricultural workers on H-2A visas - IRS

Foreign agricultural workers temporarily admitted into the United States on H-2A visas are exempt from US Social Security and Medicare taxes on compensation ...

Judge Blocks New DOL H-2A Farmworker Visa Rule in 17 States

Unlike H-2B visas for all other temporary or seasonal workers, there is no limit to the number of H-2A visas available annually, but, like H-2B ...

H-2A Employers and Agents - Department of Labor - NY.gov

The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring ...