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20 CFR §655.1290

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This subpart sets out the procedures established by the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor (the Secretary) to acquire information sufficient to make factual determinations of:
  1. (a)Whether there are sufficient able, willing, and qualified U.S. workers available to perform the temporary and seasonal agricultural employment for which an employer desires to import nonimmigrant foreign workers (H-2A workers); and
  2. (b)Whether the employment of H-2A workers will adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the U.S. similarly employed.