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

The AILA Department of Labor (DOL) Liaison Committee provides a resource page with links to legal authorities, agency guidance and publications, and AILA resources and publications helpful for H-2A practice.

Legal Authorities

• INA 101(a)(15)(H) Noncitizens coming temporarily to the United States to perform services
• 8 CFR 214.2(h) Temporary employees

DOL-OFLC Guidance

• H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program
• H-2A Program Flow Chart
• H-2A Application and Appendix Forms (most current versions including parties subject to Kansas litigation)
• H-2A Temporary Certification for Agriculture Workers
• H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR)
• Agricultural Online Wage Library
• H-2A Meals & H-2A and H-2B Subsistence Rates
• H-2A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• OFLC Searchable Database of FAQs
• Processing Times for Prevailing Wage Determinations and H-2A, H-2B Applications
• State Workforce Agency (SWA) and National Processing Center Contacts
• H-2A Labor Supply State Determinations
• Prevailing Wage Surveys 2022 H-2A Final Rule

Farmworker Protection Rule

• DOL Final Rule
• FAQs on the Farmworker Protection Rule
• H-2A Employers Guide to the Farmworker Protection Rule
• Materials from DOL Webinar on Farmworker Protection Rule

Litigation To Block Farmworker Protection Rule

• U.S. District Court (GA) ruling blocking enforcing Farmworker Protection Rule in 17 states “Kansas Litigation”
• North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation complaint to block Farmworker Protection Rule
• DOL General Notice for Emergency Request to Reinstate H-2A Forms

DOL-WHD

• Wage and Hour Regulatory Library: H-2 (Temporary Nonagricultural Labor or Services) Program and Guidance Documents
• Section 1188 — Admission of Temporary H2A Workers
• H-2A WHD Fact Sheets
• H-2A Workers Rights Card for U.S. Workers
• Workplace Poster: Employee Rights Under the H-2A Program (English)
• Agricultural Transportation Safety
• Transportation Safety Checklist
• ETA Housing Safety and Health Checklist
• Wage and Hour Fact Sheets
• H-2A Employee Rights Poster

USCIS/DHS Guidance

• H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers
• H-2A Eligible Countries List
• H-2A Employer Data Hub

US DOS Guidance

• Foreign Affairs Manual
  9 FAM 402.10-4(D) H-2A Nonimmigrants
  9 FAM 402.10-8(D) Effect of DOL Revocation for H-2A Beneficiaries
  9 FAM 402.10-12 Length and Extension of Stay
  9 FAM 402.10-13(B) H-2A, H-2B Nonimmigrants Maximum Allowable Time

AILA Publications:

• 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. D’Arrigo, Ashley Foret Dees, and Ed White (AILA 2024)
• H-2A and H-2B Practice: What Are We So Afraid Of? Immigration Practice Pointers, 2021-22 Ed. (AILA 2021), by Loan T. Huynh, L.J. D’Arrigo, Ashley Foret Dees, and Sujata Ajmera

Alerts

• DOL Announces Delay in Transition Schedule for Implementing the 2024 H-2A Final Rule
• DOL Alert on the Implementation of the Worker Protection Rule
• DOL Notice of Updates to the Adverse Effect Wage Rates for H-2A Workers
• Practice Pointer: Implementation of DOL’s H-2A Final Rule Improving Worker Protections