In Support of The TFR

The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) published a temporary last guideline (TFR) increasing the numerical restriction on H-2B visas to no more than 64,716 for FY 2024 positions with start dates of work on or after October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, to qualifying employers that are suffering permanent harm or will suffer impending irreparable harm without the ability to use all of the H-2B employees asked for under the cap boost. Under this TFR and in order to supply U.S. workers a practical chance to pursue tasks for which companies will be seeking foreign workers under this TFR, the Departments have actually determined that if companies file an I-129 petition with DHS 30 or more days after their licensed start dates of work, as revealed on its formerly authorized DOL Form ETA-9142B, Final Determination: H-2B Temporary Labor Certification Approval (H-2B TLC), they must take extra, positive recruitment actions to promote the job chance to potential U.S. workers who are qualified, prepared, and available to carry out the work.

Employers that are needed to take part in extra recruitment must, to name a few requirements, put a brand-new task order with the State Workforce Agency (SWA) serving the location of intended work no behind the next service day after sending an I-129 petition for H-2B employees to DHS, promote the task opportunity for a duration of at least 15 calendar days, and notify the SWA that the job order is being put in connection with a previously submitted and licensed H-2B TLC by providing the SWA with the unique H-2B TLC case number assigned by the DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC). Under this TFR, employers must also supply the OFLC with the special H-2B TLC case number concurrently with their positioning of brand-new task orders with the SWAs. This notice allows OFLC to cross referral and repost details about the task opportunities that are supplied on the employers' licensed H-2B TLC and initially posted on this SeasonalJobs.dol.gov website.

In assistance of the TFR, the data file below in Microsoft Excel format provides current information about the momentary or seasonal H-2B job opportunities that have been marketed or are currently being promoted concurrently with the SWA(s) for recruitment of U.S. employees and for which OFLC has actually received a distinct H-2B TLC case number from the company. A record layout in Adobe PDF format consisting of a description of each data field is likewise available for download.