bringing somebody here to work.

[babykim 0]

hi everyone hope everybody are good.im not been posting here for a long time after our journey are done on greencard.im here again and i need to get some ideas or help if we can posible or not to get a working visa to a somebody from philippines.here a little story to let u guys understand.my husband is a farmer and we grow crops like soybean and corn.and his been farming on it alone.he got lots of land to farm and his thinking to get somebody from philippines to help him here in our farm.so can we get somebody a working visa from philipines to work our farm?or is that a posible that we can get that visa?we dont have any idea about it.so wer hoping that somebody can help us..i appreciate if somebody can give us some ideas..thanks in advance who people who rply ds post.

[sjr09 155]

If you have "somebody" in mind, as a Temporary Worker(s)

here are various categories (called classifications) of nonimmigrant visas for a person who wishes to work temporarily in the United States, based on U.S immigration laws, specifically the Immigration and Nationality Act. If you want to work in the U.S. temporarily, under immigration law, you need a specific visa based on the purpose of your travel and type of work you will be doing. To learn more, please see United States Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) Working in the U.S. webpage. Time you do some reading on classifications.

http://travel.state....types_1271.html

[justashooter 430]

http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/h2a.pdf?docID=1621

Need. An employer seeking labor certification must first establish that “there

are not sufficient U.S. workers who are able, willing, and qualified, and who

will be available at the time and place needed, to perform the labor or

services involved in the petition.”1 To do this, DOL regulations require that

employers:

1. Undertake “positive recruitment” efforts to obtain U.S. workers

through informal channels, calling or sending letters to local farm

labor organizations, migrant workers and other potential workers to

find U.S. workers. Employers must also advertise the jobs in

newspapers of general circulation or on the radio. Under federal

regulations, DOL has the authority to:

a. Require which publications and radio outlets are used and

b. Determine whether the advertisements should be in English or

another language.23

2. The employer must also utilize existing federal and state

employment services with responsibilities over labor certification to

contact U.S. workers through local, state and interstate job orders.4

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=889f0b89284a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=889f0b89284a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD

to clarify, application for a permit to import temporary workers is not easy or cheap, but it can be done. lots of nurses and IT workers come in from phils and india on contract to employment agencies that have waded through the piles of paperwork it takes to get authorisation to import workers. the thing is, they are well organised agencies with lawyers and managers that specialise in the process and are well practiced. they import these people and subcontract them at low bid to US employers after slicing off a cut that usually runs about $120-200 per week per employee, and import people by the thousands. it's a money making business.

the imported worker thinks they are making out (though they aren't doing as well as the average American with same skills), and can send money home, the employers are paying 20% less than a comparable US wage, and the headhunters are shaving the cream. everybody is happy for awhile, except the US workers who can't get a job that an immigrant has already taken. the basis for the importation is an appearance of a deficit of appropriately skilled labour that is fabricated on basis of US gov't distributed statistics, and often does not represent reality.

your husband could prolly do it too, but it would stack paper a mile high and take him a long time to do it since he is not part of the system and would have a learning curve. he could argue that there is a shortage of ag workers in USA and that importing your family would meet the need. you could even say that your family has the right training for the positions. trouble is, they are your family and would have to declare such, so they would prolly be rejected at embassy interview or sooner on basis that their ag worker application looks like intent to circumvent immigration law. on top of that, a single application for just a few people is gonna get looked at harder than the applications for large quotas of people that headhunters normally float.

sounds like a lot of trouble for little chance of reward. best chance of making it work is to network with a headhunter that imports people to USA for various jobs and pay them to teach your the method of manipulating the system.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/statutes/0004.iana.htm

(d) Roles of agricultural associations

(1) Permitting filing by agricultural associations

A petition to import an alien as a temporary agricultural worker, and an application for a labor certification with respect to such a worker, may be filed by an association of agricultural producers which use agricultural services. (see link for more)

[Terry Martin 1]

You may also want to check the government's own website for employment based visas. That site can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/27nsvk5. Simply navigate through the menu on the left, and you can read and learn about all of the different visa options that may be available to this foreign worker. If you have any further questions after reading that information, please feel free to post them here.

[babykim 0]

You may also want to check the government's own website for employment based visas. That site can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/27nsvk5. Simply navigate through the menu on the left, and you can read and learn about all of the different visa options that may be available to this foreign worker. If you have any further questions after reading that information, please feel free to post them here.

well my husband have a good fiend already in philippines and his thinking that his gonna bring his friend here for working visa because his friend know everything and know how to drive big truck and he can trust for everything.what we need to know if we can posible get a working visa to his friend to work on us?

[Boiler 45,467]

He should discuss the issue with his Immigration Lawyer.

Sounds a very long shot. I assume the work is seasonal.

There is 10% unemployment, has he tried advertising locally?

[tallcoolone 102]

hi everyone hope everybody are good.im not been posting here for a long time after our journey are done on greencard.im here again and i need to get some ideas or help if we can posible or not to get a working visa to a somebody from philippines.here a little story to let u guys understand.my husband is a farmer and we grow crops like soybean and corn.and his been farming on it alone.he got lots of land to farm and his thinking to get somebody from philippines to help him here in our farm.so can we get somebody a working visa from philipines to work our farm?or is that a posible that we can get that visa?we dont have any idea about it.so wer hoping that somebody can help us..i appreciate if somebody can give us some ideas..thanks in advance who people who rply ds post.

If what you describe would fly, then I would import a lot of my wifes family and friend into the USA to work for me.

I would love to import a couple of helper from Philippines to take care of my house and cook my food and walk my dogs.

[Darnell 8,478]

in the short term, it will actually be cheaper for your husband to buy the right sized tractor,

than to import any foreign labor into the usa.

FWIW, if his spread is under 1000 acres, is 'normal' to farm alone, as mechanical devices and automation have helped so much, these last 45 years.

Unless he has 40,000 acres to farm, and already is a huge 'industrial farm', then he's not gonna meet the requirements list that Pushbrk enumerated. Sorry.

If he's thinking to 'help his friend' then I'm sorry to say, he'll change his mind after he finishes his homework.

If he and his friend LOVE farming, it's actually cheaper to buy in to a co-op in Malaysia, than it would be to 'import his friend' into the USA for any seasonal work.

Edited September 13, 2010 by Darnell