{"id":"SEC-19-008","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"19","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Homeland Security (USCIS) and Department of Labor (ETA)","authority":"Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. 116-260, div. O, tit. I, sec. 105; INA sec. 214(g)","instrument":"Temporary final rule, 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h) and 20 C.F.R. 655 (FY 2021 H-2B supplemental cap)","title":"Exercise of Time-Limited Authority To Increase the Fiscal Year 2021 Numerical Limitation for the H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Program and Portability Flexibility for H-2B Workers Seeking To Change Employers","dateIssued":"2021-05-25","effective":"2021-05-25","end":"Supplemental visas available through Sept. 30, 2021; portability flexibility through Nov. 22, 2021","startDate":"2021-05-25","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["SUPPLY","TRAV"],"addressees":["H-2B employers","H-2B workers","consular posts"],"clause":"The 22,000 visas are divided into two allocations: 16,000 visas limited to returning workers... 6,000 visas reserved for nationals of the Northern Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala... through the end of the second half of FY 2021","enforcement":"Petition adjudication, attestation of irreparable harm, DOL and DHS audit","functions":["LS landscaping seasonal labor (the program\u0027s largest user)","HR","PL hospitality and amusement placements"],"notes":"The Q3 2021 federal instrument governing the industry\u0027s seasonal labor: the cap, the returning-worker limitation, the irreparable-harm attestation and the Sept. 30, 2021 sunset are the conditions under which landscaping labor was obtainable in the quarter; pleaded as facts and circumstances and as an order limiting commerce in labor.","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-05-25/pdf/2021-11048.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":660764,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-19","url":"/library/SEC-19-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-19-008","citation":"Department of Homeland Security (USCIS) and Department of Labor (ETA), Temporary final rule, 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h) and 20 C.F.R. 655 (FY 2021 H-2B supplemental cap) (May 25, 2021) (Ex. SEC-19-008)","stateName":"","related":[]}