H-2B Update; Participate in H-2B Negative Impacts Survey

The Colorado Office of the State Auditor is currently evaluating all of the State's tax exemptions, refunds, credits, and other 'expenditures' to provide information to the General Assembly about if/how these expenditures are used by stakeholders; their impact on stakeholders; and their impact on the state government. To be clear, they are not auditing any entities in this process—they are simply doing research to provide information about how these expenditures function.

On February 26, the Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) announced that all H-2B applications filed on or after July 3, 2019 will be randomly ordered for processing based on the date of filing and the start date of work requested. OFLC will randomly order and assign for processing all of the H-2B applications requesting the earliest start date of work permitted under the semi-annual visa allocation (i.e., October 1 or April 1) and filed during the first three calendar days of the regulatory time period for filing H-2B applications. Once first actions are issued, OFLC will randomly assign for processing all other H-2B applications filed on a single calendar day.