The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) released a short-lived last rule (TFR) increasing the numerical constraint 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 irreversible harm or will suffer impending permanent harm without the capability to employ all of the H-2B workers asked for under the cap increase. Under this TFR and in order to supply U.S. workers a realistic opportunity to pursue jobs for which employers will be seeking foreign workers under this TFR, the Departments have actually identified that if employers file an I-129 petition with DHS 30 or more days after their licensed start dates of work, as revealed on its formerly approved DOL Form ETA-9142B, Final Determination: H-2B Temporary Labor Certification Approval (H-2B TLC), they need to take extra, favorable recruitment steps to promote the task opportunity to potential U.S. workers who are certified, willing, and offered to perform the work.

Employers that are required to participate in extra recruitment must, amongst other requirements, place a new job order with the State Workforce Agency (SWA) serving the area of desired employment no later on than the next service day after sending an I-129 petition for H-2B workers to DHS, promote the job chance for a duration of at least 15 calendar days, and inform the SWA that the job order is being put in connection with a previously sent and licensed H-2B TLC by offering the SWA with the unique H-2B TLC case number appointed by the DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC). Under this TFR, companies must likewise offer the OFLC with the unique H-2B TLC case number concurrently with their positioning of new task orders with the SWAs. This notice enables OFLC to cross referral and repost details about the job chances that are supplied on the employers' licensed H-2B TLC and at first published on this SeasonalJobs.dol.gov site.

In support of the TFR, the information file listed below in Microsoft Excel format offers present info about the temporary or seasonal H-2B job chances that have been advertised or are presently being marketed concurrently with the SWA(s) for recruitment of U.S. workers and for which OFLC has actually gotten a special H-2B TLC case number from the company. A record layout in Adobe PDF format consisting of a description of each information field is also offered for download.