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Daniel M. Kowalski
8 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
H-2B Application Filing Timelines for 2024 Peak Filing Season
DOLETA, Dec. 22, 2023 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) reminds employers and other interested stakeholders that the filing window to submit an H-2B Application for Temporary Employment Certification (Form ETA-9142B and appendices...
Daniel M. Kowalski
10 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Announces Availability of Additional H-2B Visas for Fiscal Year 2024
USCIS, Nov. 16, 2023 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Department of Labor (DOL) published a temporary final rule making available an additional 64,716 H-2B...
Daniel M. Kowalski
10 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
H-2 Visa Countries: Advance Copy
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 11/09/2023 "Under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may generally only approve petitions for H-2A and H-2B...
Daniel M. Kowalski
11 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of FY 2024
USCIS, Oct. 13, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2024. Oct. 11, 2023...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Publishes List of Randomized H-2B Applications Submitted July 3-5, 2023, for Employers Seeking H-2B Workers Starting October 1, 2023
OFLC, July 10, 2023 "To keep the public informed regarding the submission and assignment of H-2B applications for review, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) published the Assignment Groups for 2,157 H-2B applications covering 40,947...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Cap Reached for Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visas for the Early Second Half of FY 2023
USCIS, Mar. 31, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 16,500 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for Second Half of FY 2023 and Announces Filing Dates for the Second Half of FY 2023 Supplemental Visas
USCIS, Mar. 2, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received enough petitions to meet the H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 and is announcing the filing dates for supplemental H-2B visas for the reminder...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Releases the H-2B Foreign Labor Recruiter List for Q1 of Fiscal Year 2023
OFLC, Feb. 14, 2023 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has published an updated list of the names of foreign labor recruiters for the H-2B program as required by 20 CFR 655.9(c) . The list contains the name and location of persons...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Publishes 2023 Update to Allowable Charges for H-2A Agricultural Workers' Meals and for H-2A and H-2B Travel Subsistence Reimbursement, Including Lodging
OFLC, Feb. 9, 2023 "The Employment and Training Administration has issued a notice in the Federal Register to announce the annual updated dollar amount H-2A employers may charge workers, other than workers in herding or production of livestock...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Publishes List of Randomized H-2B Applications Submitted January 1-3 for Employers Seeking H-2B Workers Starting April 1, 2023
OFLC, Jan. 9, 2023 "To keep the public informed regarding the submission and assignment of H-2B applications for review, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) published the assignment group(s) for 8,693 H-2B applications covering 142...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
H-2B Visa Demand Far Exceeds Supply...Again
OFLC, Jan. 4, 2023 "OFLC Conducts Randomization Process on H-2B Applications Submitted Requesting an April 1, 2023, Work Start Date The Office of Foreign Labor Certification has completed the randomization process to randomly assign all H-2B...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
H-2B Attestation Form, Instructions (Dec. 19, 2022)
Here is the form . Here are the instructions . [And here is my 2017 opinion on the matter.]
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Will Propose Rescission of H-2B Registration Requirements and Will Provide Unique H-2B Temporary Registration Numbers Per District Court’s Order
OFLC, Dec. 1, 2022 "The Department of Labor (Department) published the current H-2B regulations, Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment of H-2B Aliens in the United States , as an interim final rule with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
List of H-2A/B Visa Countries (Advance Notice)
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 11/10/2022 "Under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may generally only approve petitions for H-2A and H-2B...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
DHS to Supplement H-2B Cap with Nearly 65,000 Additional Visas for Fiscal Year 2023
DHS, Oct. 12, 2022 "Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of Labor (DOL), announced that it will be issuing a regulation that will make available to employers an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of FY 2023
USCIS, Sept. 14, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2023. Sept. 12,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Releases the H-2B Foreign Labor Recruiter List for Q3 of Fiscal Year 2022
OFLC, Aug. 15, 2022 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has published an updated list of the names of foreign labor recruiters for the H-2B program as required by 20 CFR 655.9(c) . The list contains the name and location of persons...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
2022 H-2B Visa News (July 12, 2022)
OFLC, July 12, 2022 OFLC Publishes List of Randomized H-2B Applications Submitted July 3-5, 2022, for Employers Seeking H-2B Workers Starting October 1, 2022 To keep the public informed regarding the submission and assignment of H-2B applications...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Cap Reached for Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visas for Second Half of FY 2022
USCIS, May 31, 2022 "Under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule increasing the cap by up to 35,000 additional H-2B nonimmigrant visas through the end of fiscal year (FY) 2022, USCIS has received enough petitions to...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC Clarifies Method of Contacting AFL-CIO
OFLC, May 27, 2022 "The Department of Labor Clarifies Method of Contacting AFL-CIO Required Under the Rule Increasing the Number of H-2B Visas Available in the Second Half of Fiscal Year 2022 The U.S. Departments of Labor and Homeland Security...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Temporary H-2B Rule (May 18, 2022)
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 96 / Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Exercise of Time-Limited Authority To Increase the Numerical Limitation for Second Half of FY 2022 for the H–2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Program and Portability Flexibility for H–2B...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
DHS and DOL Announce Availability of Additional H-2B Visas for Second Half of Fiscal Year
USCIS, May 16, 2022 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced today the availability of an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas during the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2022...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Feds to Add 35K Additional H-2B Visas
DHS, Mar. 31, 2022 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) today announced the forthcoming publication of a joint temporary final rule to make available an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
OFLC H-2B Webinar, Mar. 23, 2022
OFLC, Mar. 18, 2022 "OFLC Announces a Webinar on March 23, 2022 to Provide H-2B Prevailing Wage Determination General Filing Tips and Survey Basics for Surveyors As part of the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's (OFLC) on-going efforts...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
H-2B Cap Reached for Second Half of FY 2022
USCIS, Mar. 1, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2022. Feb. 25, 2022, was the final receipt date for new cap-subject...
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