The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of Homeland Security, USCIS (federal agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 8 U.S.C. 1103(a), 1184
- Issued
- 2020-12-18 Dec. 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-18
- End
- 2023-12-18
- In force
- Dec. 18, 2020 to Dec. 18, 2023
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineWorkplace rulesSupply chain
- Addressees
- H-2A petitioners
- H-2A workers in the United States
- Functions reached
- LB seasonal agricultural labor through 2021
- HR hiring and start dates
- FP production
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
SUMMARY: As a result of continued disruptions and uncertainty to the U.S. food agriculture sector during the upcoming winter and spring agricultural seasons caused by the global novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency, the Department of Homeland Security... [ensures that] employers have access to the orderly and timely flow of legal foreign workers, thereby protecting the integrity of the nation's food supply chain... DATES: This final rule is effective from December 18, 2020, through December 18, 2023. Employers may request the flexibilities under this rule by filing an H-2A petition on or after December 18, 2020...
Enforcement
8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(21) conditions; INA 274A
Notes
In force on every day of 2021 Q1-Q3; the federal government's own finding that the COVID-19 disruption of the agricultural labor supply continued into 2021.