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Guest Worker Program
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Immigration Blog
Temporary Suspension of Entry Ends for Certain H, L, J Visa Categories
The restrictions on the issuance of H-1B, L-1, and J-1 nonimmigrant “guest-worker” visas, which have been in place since June 24, 2020, expired without fanfare on March 31, 2021. As…
COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor
Temporary Suspension of Entry Ends for Certain H, L, J Visa Categories
The restrictions on the issuance of H-1B, L-1, and J-1 nonimmigrant “guest-worker” visas, which have been in place since June 24, 2020, expired without fanfare on March 31, 2021. As…
Through The Immigration Lens
Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration
By Angelo A. Paparelli and Stephen Yale-Loehr As a new administration takes office on January 20, and the tantalizing prospect of enlightened immigration reforms looms on the horizon, an intriguing question has surfaced on Twitter:…
Health Law Prof Blog
Family Farmers to Foreign Fieldhands: Consolidation of Canadian Agriculture and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Robert Falconer (University of Calgary), Family Farmers to Foreign Fieldhands: Consolidation of Canadian Agriculture and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, The School of Public Policy Publications 2020The repercussions of the…
Health Law Prof Blog
Family Farmers to Foreign Fieldhands: Consolidation of Canadian Agriculture and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Robert Falconer (University of Calgary), Family Farmers to Foreign Fieldhands: Consolidation of Canadian Agriculture and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, The School of Public Policy Publications 2020The repercussions of the…
Inside Business Immigration
Senators Urge President Trump to Restrict Guest Worker Programs
On May 7, 2020, four U.S. senators wrote a letter to President Trump, requesting that he suspend “all new guest worker visas” for 60 days, and others for a year…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Guest Post: Coronavirus Threatens to Cripple U.S. Food Infrastructure
By Hunter Knapp, University of Colorado Law SchoolThe downstream consequences of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, continue to mount. As of March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended interviews…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Growing Pains: Guest Farm Workers Face Exploitation, Dangerous Conditions
ROYAL CITY, WA- Carlos Gutierrez, an immigrant H-2A guest worker, strings up wire supports for planting apple trees in a Stemilt Company field.Photojournalist and social critic, David Bacon in Capital…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From Braceros to Temporary DACA Recipients
Guest blogger: Andrea Portillo, graduate student, University of San Francisco, Masters in Migration StudiesMuch of my research has highlighted the importance policies like DACA, which have been extremely beneficial for the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Cornell Law School Colloquiom: The Hidden Migrant Workforce: Comparing the Canadian and U.S. Temporary Foreign Worker Visa Programs
Cornell Law School's spring 2017 Berger Current Events Colloquium (April 21) will look at temporary foreign worker programs. Register here by Monday, April 17. Early into the Trump administration, both the…