Labor Certification and Petition Process for the Temporary Employment of Nonimmigrant Aliens in Agriculture in the United States; Modification of Fee Structure; Withdrawal of Proposed Rule

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• Document number: 02-24190
• Type: Proposed Rule
• Published: September 24, 2002
• Agency: Labor Department; Employment and Training Administration

Official abstract

The Department of Labor is withdrawing its proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 13, 2001 (65 FR 43545), which would have required employers seeking to temporarily employ nonimmigrant farmworkers to submit, at the time of filing, a new consolidated application form, fees for the labor certification, and the associated H-2A petition. For the reasons discussed below, the Department has decided to withdraw the proposed rule and to terminate the rulemaking.

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