On Tuesday night, June 26, 2024, at the behest of House leadership and the Freedom Caucus, the "may to shall" amendment that was added during committee markup was stripped from the FY 25 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The bill moves to the House floor Friday,...
On June 4, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) passed the FY 25 DHS funding bill. The bill extends the existing discretionary language that has been law for the past several years. The full Appropriations Committee plans...
We'll be featuring staff who are part of our FEWA family. It's only fitting to start with Rita Romero, pictured here with husband Javier and five of their six grandchildren. As one of its first employees, Rita Romero's journey with the Federation of Employers and...
FEWA in collaboration with the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), is hosting its H-2B Fly-In for members on May 21- 22, 2024. Join us in Washington, D.C, as we need power in numbers and your personal stories on how the H-2B cap limitations affect...
February 13, 2024 - The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) published the federal register notice regarding travel subsistence reimbursement for H-2A, H-2B, and allowable charges for agricultural workers' meals...
During this week's House Appropriations Committee Markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Homeland Security bill, the committee passed by voice vote an amendment that would enhance the existing discretionary language by mandating that DHS release supplemental...
As of April 17, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 19,000 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second half of fiscal year (FY) 2024. CIS is still accepting...
On January 30, 2024, a final rule was published to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees for the first time since 2016. This final rule will go into effect on April 1, 2024. You may access the final rule in the Federal Register. Changes...
Representatives Slotkin (D-MI) and Bergman (R-MI) recently introduced Closing the Workforce Gap Act of 2024, which would provide permanent H-2B cap relief by setting the annual H-2B cap at the number of H-2B worker positions certified by the Department of Labor during...
by David Kuack With the increasing decline in the U.S. agricultural workforce, farm operators have had to look for alternative ways to continue to operate their businesses. Mechanization for some farm operators, primarily commodity crops like corn and soybeans, has...