Homeland Security Department, Labor Department, Employment and Training Administration
DHS, in consultation with DOL, is exercising time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to 64,716 for the entirety of FY 2024. These supplemental visas will be distributed in several allocations. 20,000 visas made available in this rule will be reserved for nationals of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, or Costa Rica. All visas will be available only to businesses that are suffering or will suffer impending irreparable harm, as attested by the employer. In addition, DHS is again providing temporary portability flexibility.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Homeland Security 8 CFR Parts 214 and 274a [CIS No. 2764-24] RIN 1615-AC89 Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration 20 CFR Part 655 [DOL Docket No. ETA-2023-0005] RIN 1205-AC18 AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Employment and Training Administration and Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). ACTION: Temporary rule. SUMMARY: DHS, in consultation with DOL, is exercising time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to 64,716 for the entirety of FY 2024. These supplemental visas will be distributed in several allocations. 20,000 visas made available in this rule will be reserved for nationals of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, or Costa Rica. All visas will be available only to businesses that are suffering or will suffer impending irreparable harm, as attested by the employer. In addition, DHS is again providing temporary portability flexibility. DATES: Effective dates: The amendments at instructions 1, 3, and 5 are effective November 17, 2023; at instructions 2 and 4 amending 8 CFR 214.2 and 274a.12 , respectively, are effective from November 17, 2023, through November 17, 2026; at instruction 6, adding 20 CFR 655.64 , is effective from November 17, 2023, through September 30, 2024; and at instruction 7, adding 20 CFR 655.65 , is effective fro…
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Citation: 88 FR 80394
