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- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- INA secs. 103(a), 214(a), 214(c), 218 (8 U.S.C. 1103(a), 1184, 1188); 8 CFR 214.2(h)(5)
- Issued
- 2020-04-20 Apr. 20, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-20
- End
- 2020-08-18 (extended in part by 85 Fed. Reg. 51304 and 85 Fed. Reg. 82291) (read as 2020-08-18)
- In force
- Apr. 20, 2020 to Aug. 18, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- H-2A employers and workers
- Functions reached
- LB the H-2A labor pipeline (the rule is the Government's own finding that consular and travel limits disrupted farm labor)
- FP harvest crews
- HR
- Collection
- Agriculture and Food Processing SEC-20
Operative words
As a result of disruptions and uncertainty to the U.S. food agriculture sector during the upcoming summer agricultural season caused by the global novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency, the Department of Homeland Security... has decided to temporarily amend the regulations regarding temporary and seasonal agricultural workers... The Department is temporarily removing certain limitations on agricultural employers and workers in order to provide agricultural employers with an orderly and timely flow of legal foreign workers, thereby protecting the integrity of the nation's food supply chain
Enforcement
Regulatory (8 CFR 214.2(h)(5) as temporarily amended)
Notes
A federal finding that the consular suspension of Mar. 20, 2020 and travel limits had disrupted the H-2A supply; the rule's preamble cites Mission Mexico's status page (Ex. SEC-20-027).