Immigration
Jun. 21, 2019
The H-2A: The little known visa program for farmers
Driving around in Fresno County, it’s impossible to miss the workers squatting in the fields picking strawberries or cauliflower on a cool 100 degree day. They would not be able to function without a little known visa program called the H-2A guest worker program, which has become one of the greatest assets for farmers in need of additional workforce due to the wide-spread labor shortage in agriculture.
Nandini Nair
Partner
Greenspoon Marder LLP
Email: Nandini.Nair@gmlaw.com
Nandini is a partner in the firm's Immigration and Naturalization practice group. She focuses her practice on analysis and processing of U.S. visas, employment-based and family-based applications, naturalization applications and other immigration benefits, as well as, immigration strategy and corporate policy development, training and compliance, immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other corporate changes.
Driving around in Fresno County, it's impossible to miss the workers squatting in the fields picking strawberries or cauliflower on a cool 100 degree day. This was my view for a number of years when I lived in the Central Valley. The farmers in the Central Valley would not be able to function without a little known visa program called the H-2A guest worker program, which has become one of the greatest assets for farmers in need of additional workforce due to the wide-spread labor shortage ...
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