Facilitating Earlier Filing of Certain Electronically Submitted H-2A Petitions

Status: In force. The effective date has passed and nothing here records a change to that.

From the published effective date. Nothing here records a court changing it.

• Document number: 2025-19235
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: October 2, 2025
• Effective: October 2, 2025
• Agency: Homeland Security Department

Official abstract

This final rule amends DHS regulations to modify the timing of when USCIS must receive a valid temporary labor certification when an H-2A petitioner electronically files a Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker requesting unnamed beneficiaries.

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