USDA Launches New Farmers.gov Features to Help Farmers Hire Workers

The US Department of Agriculture has added information to its Farmers.gov website to help facilitate the employment of H-2A workers.

US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue says the goal is to help farmers navigate the complex H-2A program administered by the US Departments of State, Labor and Homeland Security. He says foreign workers are essential to US farmers and America’s food supply chain.

The primary new H-2A features on Farmers.gov include:

• A real-time dashboard that enables farmers to track the status of their eligible employer application and visa applications for temporary nonimmigrant workers;
• Streamlining the login information so if a farmer has an existing login.gov account they can save multiple applications tracking numbers for quick look-up at any time;
• Enables easy access to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG);
• Allows farmers to track time-sensitive actions taken in the course of Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s (OFLC) adjudication of temporary labor certification applications;
• Allowing for farmers to access all application forms on-line.
  All information can be found at www.farmers.gov/manage/h2a.