Update: Congress averted a shutdown with just hours to spare The Senate voted 88-9 to pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) that funds the government at current levels through Nov. 17 and gives the Biden administration $16 billion it requested to assist victims of...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced September 20, 2023 a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that will modernize and improve the H-2A temporary agricultural and H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker programs. Through this proposed rule, DHS seeks to...
As tasks became more automated, the agriculture industry saw a decades long decline in labor from 1950-1990. During that time period, the number of self-employed and family farmworkers declined from 7.60 million in 1950 to 2.01 million in 1990, a 74-percent reduction....
If every unemployed person in the country found a job, 4 million jobs would remain open according to an August 2023 publication by the U.S Chamber of Commerce. Rates of unemployment have been slowly declining, down from 5.3 million in April 2022, but the broader job...
WATCH FEWA’s lobbying partner, Laurie Flanagan and FEWA’s Vice President, Arnulfo Hinojosa during their July 27th live discussion regarding the H-2B 2024 season.
National Association of Landscape Professionals Designates FEWA as Strategic Provider for H-2B Services (Fairfax, VA., June 27, 2023) —The National Association of Landscape Professionals has formed a strategic provider relationship with the Federation of Employers and...
On Wednesday, June 14th, FEWA Vice President Arnulfo Hinojosa and several FEWA members will meet with their lawmakers in Washington, DC to urge Congress to pass a returning worker exemption as part of the Fiscal 2024 spending bill that funds the Department of Homeland...
As an Executive Committee member of the H-2B Workforce Coalition, FEWA joined in support of a letter sent to Appropriations Leaders on H-2B Cap and Regulatory Relief urging them to include an H-2B returning worker exemption, or other meaningful H-2B cap relief, in the...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 16,500 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start dates from April 1, 2023 to May 14,...
New Rule for Consular Services The Department of State issued a new rule for Consular services today on fees that increases H-2A and H-2B visa application processing by $15 dollars. While it is hard to support any increase, the good news is that $15 is well...