{"id":"SEC-19-018","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"19","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Homeland Security (USCIS)","authority":"INA secs. 103(a), 214(a)(1), 214(c)(1); 8 U.S.C. 1103, 1184","instrument":"Temporary final rule, 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(6) and (h)(2)(i)(D)","title":"Temporary Changes to Requirements Affecting H-2B Nonimmigrants Due to the COVID-19 National Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-05-14","effective":"2020-05-14 through May 15, 2023 (temporary rule); flexibilities limited to petitions filed May 14 - Sept. 11, 2020","end":"Flexibility window closed Sept. 11, 2020","startDate":"2020-05-14","endDate":"2020-09-11","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["SUPPLY","TRAV"],"addressees":["H-2B petitioners and workers"],"clause":"[Flexibilities (immediate start with a new employer; extension beyond the three-year limit) available only where] the H-2B petitioner... [attests that the worker will perform] temporary nonagricultural services or labor that is essential to the U.S. food supply chain... [recital:] The Department of State suspended routine visa services at all U.S. Embassies and Consulates on March 20, 2020.","enforcement":"Petition adjudication; attestation subject to verification","functions":["LS landscaping (excluded from every flexibility: the rule confined relief to food-supply-chain H-2B workers)","HR","PL hospitality placements"],"notes":"Read with Proclamation 10052: in 2020 the federal government relieved only food-supply-chain H-2B employers and suspended entry for the rest; landscaping, the program\u0027s largest user, received neither the visas nor the flexibilities. The rule also records the consular suspension of Mar. 20, 2020 as a governmental fact.","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-05-14/pdf/2020-10486.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":265097,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-19","url":"/library/SEC-19-018","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-19-018","citation":"Department of Homeland Security (USCIS), Temporary final rule, 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(6) and (h)(2)(i)(D) (May 14, 2020) (Ex. SEC-19-018)","stateName":"","related":[]}