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Exercise of Time-Limited Authority To Increase the Numerical Limitation for FY 2025 for the H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Program and Portability Flexibility for H-2B Workers Seeking To Change Employers
The Employment and Training Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 2, 2024. It took effect on December 2, 2024.
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What the agency says
DHS, in consultation with DOL, is exercising time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to 64,716 for the entirety of FY 2025. These supplemental visas will be distributed in four allocations throughout the fiscal year. This rule reserves 20,000 of these visas for nationals of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, or Costa Rica. All visas will be available only to businesses that are suffering or will suffer impending irreparable harm, as attested by the employer. In addition, DHS is again providing temporary portability flexibility.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-28017
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Temporary rule
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department; Labor Department; Employment and Training Administration
- Published
- December 2, 2024
- Takes effect
- December 2, 2024
- Dates
- Effective dates: The amendments at instructions 1, 3, and 5 are effective December 2, 2024; instructions 2 and 4 amending 8 CFR 214.2 and 274a.12, respectively, are effective from December 2, 2024, through December 2, 2027; instruction 6, adding 20 CFR 655.64, is effective from December 2, 2024, through September 30, 2025; and instruction 7, adding 20 CFR 655.68, is effective from December 2, 2024, through September 30, 2028.
- Docket
- CIS No. 2788-25; DOL Docket No. ETA-2024-0002
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1205-AC20; 1615-AC95
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 8 CFR 214; 8 CFR 274; 20 CFR 655
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Aliens; Cultural exchange programs; Employment; Foreign officials; Forests and forest products; Fraud; Health professions; Immigration; Labor; Passports and visas; Penalties; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Students; Wages
- Pages
- 60
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