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USCIS Publishes Updated Guidance on H-2A Petitions for Sheep/Goat Herders

2/28/20 AILA Doc. No. 20022834. Business Immigration, H-2A Agricultural Worker

USCIS published an updated policy memo requiring requests for temporary foreign workers for sheep/goat herding or production to be subject to the same requirements as other temporary agricultural workers. USCIS will adjudicate all Forms I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker, for H-2A sheep/goat herders with this updated PM effective June 1, 2020.

This PM supersedes Policy Memorandum 602-0176, Temporary or Seasonal Need for H-2A Petitions Seeking Workers for Range Sheep and/or Goat Herding or Production, dated November 14, 2019.

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Cite as AILA Doc. No. 20022834.

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