Archive for the ‘H-2B Visa’ Category
Monday, July 20th, 2009
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Associate Director, Domestic Operations, Donald Neufeld’s has issued a Memorandum relating to H-2A agricultural temporary worker and H-2B nonagricultural temporary worker. The memorandum provides guidance for processing and adjudicating of Form I-129 petition for nonimmigrant worker, filed on behalf of H-2A agricultural ...
Posted in Great Lakes, H-2A Agricultural Temporary Worker, H-2B Nonagricultural Temporary Worker, H-2B Visa, Harrisonburg File Storage Facility, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Lawful Employment, Manpower Optimization Stabilization and Training Fund, National Association of Construction Boilermaker Employers, Non-Immigrant Visas, Service Center Mail, State Kentucky Consular Center, Temporary Service or Labor Workers, Timely Processing, Training and Employment Guidance Letter | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
To allow citizens from countries that are not listed as eligible for H-2A or H-2B classification to utilize them, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Service Center Operations, Chief Barbara Q. Velarde issued a memo to Service Center Directors with some guidelines. In the memo, Velarde clarifies the evidence ...
Posted in Barbara Q. Velarde, Eligible Countries List, Guidance Memorandum, H-2A Visa, H-2B Visa, Service Center Operations | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Last year, the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) published Final Rule on the Labor Certification process and enforcement for H-2B visa category that took effect on January 18, 2009. In order to clarify queries arising from the application of the new regulations, the department published its ...
Posted in DOL, ETA, faqs, form eta-9142, h-2b, H-2B Visa | No Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notification withdrawing for further consideration an interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) published on December 18 and 19, 2008. DOL was oversight in its interpretation as it articulated an opinion that the FLSA and its implementing regulations do not require employers ...
Posted in Arriaga Case, Employment Standard Administration, Fair Labor Standard Act, H-2B Visa, Wage and Hour Division | No Comments »
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
A group of twenty foreign welders contracted to work in Channelview have instituted a lawsuit against Coast to Coast Resources, a Port Aransas based staffing agency and ILP Agency, a Louisiana based labor firm for breaching the alleged contract of providing work for 30 months at $15 per hour. English ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
The USCIS proposes to revise the regulation governing H-2B visas. The new regulation would provide that employment be of a temporary nature when the employer needs a worker for a limited period of time. The employer must establish that the need for the employee will end in the near definable ...
Posted in H-2B Visa, Temporary Workers | No Comments »
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The USCIS states that from now on petitioners of H-2A agricultural temporary workers and H-2B non-agricultural temporary worker are required to use new Form I-129 “Non-Immigrant Worker’s Petition.” The final rules for above two categories were published in December 2008 with effective dates of January 17 and 18, 2009 respectively. ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
On January 13, 2009, DHS published corrections to Final Rule that originally appeared in the Federal Register on December 19, 2008, titled "Changes to Requirements Affecting H-2B Non-immigrants and Their Employees."DHS announced that some inadvertently typographical errors have occurred on pages 78127, 78128, and 78130 of PART 214-Non-immigrant Classes and ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a final rule taking effect on January 18, 2009 amending the H-2B non-immigrant classification regulations. The rule aims to remove certain limitations like the requirement for H-2B petitioners to write the names of prospective H-2B workers, who are currently abroad on the ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Yesterday, USCIS has announced that the congressional mandated H-2B cap for the second half of Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 2009) was reached on Jan. 7 2009 and it will be treated as the "final receipt date". Applications received after the final receipt date will be rejected and workers currently in ...
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