The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) released a short-term final rule (TFR) increasing the numerical restriction on H-2B nonimmigrant visas to no greater than 64,716 for FY 2024 positions with start dates of deal with or after October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, to certifying companies that are suffering permanent harm or will suffer upcoming irreversible damage without the ability to employ all of the H-2B employees asked for under the cap boost. Under this TFR and in order to provide U.S. workers a reasonable opportunity to pursue jobs for which companies will be looking for foreign workers under this TFR, the Departments have actually determined that if companies submit 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 need to take extra, favorable recruitment actions to advertise the job chance to potential U.S. workers who are qualified, prepared, and available to carry out the work.

Employers that are required to take part in extra recruitment must, amongst other requirements, position a new job order with the State Workforce Agency (SWA) serving the area of desired employment no behind the next company day after submitting an I-129 petition for H-2B employees to DHS, market the job opportunity for a period of at least 15 calendar days, and inform the SWA that the job order is being placed in connection with a previously sent and accredited H-2B TLC by supplying the SWA with the special H-2B TLC case number appointed by the DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC). Under this TFR, companies need to likewise provide the OFLC with the distinct H-2B TLC case number simultaneously with their placement of new task orders with the SWAs. This notice permits OFLC to and repost info about the job opportunities that are offered on the employers' accredited H-2B TLC and initially published on this SeasonalJobs.dol.gov site.

In assistance of the TFR, the data file listed below in Microsoft Excel format supplies current details about the short-lived or seasonal H-2B job chances that have actually been advertised or are presently being marketed concurrently with the SWA(s) for recruitment of U.S. employees and for which OFLC has gotten a distinct H-2B TLC case number from the company. A record design in Adobe PDF format consisting of a description of each data field is also offered for download.