Whether you need one employee to help your family crop farm thrive or you need an entire seasonal workforce with hundreds of skilled temporary employees, our agency has the necessary experience and knowledge to help your farm or agribusiness succeed. 

Here’s how it works. 

We begin by helping you apply for and secure Temporary Labor Certification from the Department of Labor (DOL) so you can legally hire foreign employees for your agribusiness.  

Next, we give clients access to our 100% secure, proprietary database, which houses all of the information and documentation related to your certification.

We specialize in sourcing skilled employees for more complex farm positions such as Equipment Operators, so our database also contains the resumes and CVs of thousands of qualified applicants from eligible H-2A countries around the globe.

Finally, we help you identify talented employees that fit your labor needs and prepare the necessary H-2A visa paperwork with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) so you can legally bring these employees over to America to work for your business. 

Trust Your Agriculture Workforce Needs to the H-2A Experts

We’ve organized our agency in a way that streamlines the complicated H-2A process and makes it easy for our clients to secure their workforce and meet their labor needs. USA FARM LABOR comprises several departments, all working together to solve your seasonal workforce woes. Whether you’re running a co-operative farming operation or just a small family crop farm, USA Farm Labor is dedicated to helping you source the best seasonal workforce imaginable.

H-2A Consultants

You’ll first speak with one of our expert labor consultants who will take the time to get to know you, learn about your business, and assess your labor needs. Our H-2A consultants have been thoroughly trained to identify those clients whose businesses will benefit from the program and our H-2A agency services. 

Our consultants cover areas such as program requirements, common pitfalls, and answer any questions you might have before you commit to moving forward and pursuing your Temporary Labor Certification. 

Best of all, the consultation process is 100% FREE and there’s absolutely no commitment nor will you be pressured into making a decision right away. 

Our consultants simply give you the information you need and answer all of your questions so you can make an informed decision about your seasonal workforce needs. 

If necessary, our consultants gladly help you log into our database and start an application. We know you’re busy, so we’re happy to help you get started.

If you decide that H-2A is the right path for your labor needs, our agents will create a username and give you access to our proprietary H-2A database. 

That’s when pre-processing takes over. 

Our pre-processing department begins organizing your information and gathering the documentation necessary to apply for your Temporary Labor Certification from the DOL, which enables your business to legally hire foreign employees eligible for the H-2A visa program. 

Once you’ve submitted all of your information and supplied us with the documents we need to get your business certified by the DOL, our processing department submits everything electronically to the DOL’s Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system. 

Our processing agents have FLAG system profiles and logins already in place to seamlessly submit your application within the necessary timeframe to ensure your employees arrive in America to work in time to meet your seasonal needs. 

Our processing agents are thoroughly trained on how to efficiently use the FLAG system and navigate common challenges with our clients’ applications. 

Meanwhile, you’re freed up to focus on interviewing qualified candidates from our H-2A database and decide which ones will best suit your open positions. Many of these candidates hail from South Africa, but we serve a diverse population from all around the globe.

Once we receive your Labor Certification from the DOL, you will be assigned a personal Worker Placement Coordinator to help you navigate the interviewing process and coordinate the arrival of your new employees. We discuss Worker Placement’s role further below! 

Once you’ve been approved for Temporary Labor Certification and identified the H-2A candidates who you feel will make a great fit with your farm or agribusiness, it’s time to petition the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to bring these candidates over to America on an H-2A visa. That’s where our expert USCIS processing department gets to work. 

We petition the USCIS on your behalf and complete the long, complicated paperwork process to get your desired candidates their H-2A visas and come to the United States legally.

USCIS is affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), so having a knowledgeable and trusted agency is vital at this stage of the H-2A hiring process. 

You can’t afford to trust this process to just anyone, so choosing an experienced, knowledgeable H-2A agency is critical.

Failure at this step can be detrimental to your season as workers can be severely delayed or denied entry into the country altogether.

Our USCIS agents have decades of combined experience with these petitions and they understand how to navigate this process in a timely, professional manner. 

Each of our clients is also assigned a Worker Placement Coordinator. Our Placement Coordinators provide ongoing support for your workforce needs throughout your season and manage your experience with our agency. 

Your Placement Coordinator serves as your liaison with our agency and is dedicated to helping you navigate all aspects of the H-2A program.

From assistance with choosing your workforce to sorting out any conflicts between you and your H-2A employees to ensuring the visa process is moving along on schedule, your Placement Coordinator is your main point of contact with our company and a vital resource for you and your H-2A employees. 

We are the leading experts in the realm of H-2A program compliance and it’s one of the many benefits of hiring our agency to handle your H-2A workforce needs.

Our H-2Advantage “Guide to the Program” Compliance Manual sets the industry standard for compliance manuals. 

When a new client signs up with our H-2A agency, we include a complimentary copy of our compliance manual complete with everything you need to know about the program and how it works.

We update the manual every time a new rule or regulation is put in place by the Department of Labor (DOL).

We recently released the 4th edition of our compliance manual, complete with the latest updates to the program and the newest regulations set forth by the DOL.

Likewise, each of our employees across departments spends their first weeks of employment reading the compliance manual and learning the program inside and out so that we all may better serve you. This level of dedication, knowledge, and training allows us to fulfill our mission of serving with excellence.

One of the reasons we spend so much time learning the ins and outs of the H-2A program is so that we are prepared to handle anything the DOL might throw at us. This includes audits.

No one likes the word audit. It’s scary and it makes most of us think of a dreaded IRS tax audit. H-2A audits are nothing like that and your finances are not in question in this program.

Still, since the H-2A visa program runs through the DOL, certificate holders are subject to random audits. There are two types of audits – paper audits and field audits. 

Most audits are basic paper audits in which the DOL requests various documents to show you’re complying with the rules and regulations of the program. 

Although the DOL will conduct the occasional field audit where they come out to your farm or worksite to investigate, these types of audits are incredibly rare and, in our experience, stem from repeated complaints, violations, or a failure to comply with basic paper audits. 

Either way, our agency is well-versed in the audit process and provides 100% support for our clients every step of the way. 

We maintain secure, detailed records of our clients’ required documents and certifications, so we’re prepared to help our past clients with an H-2A audit for years past.

Our detailed record-keeping system means we’re prepared to help our clients navigate the challenges of an audit regardless of the year or season in question. If you were a client during the year in question, we provide audit assistance, regardless of your current status with our agency.

Most times, our clients simply need to send us a few key documents specific to their business and our expert staff handles the rest, making the dreaded audit process simple, fast, and stress-free.