H-2A temporary agricultural worker program
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The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program is a U.S. visa program that allows agricultural employers to hire foreign nationals for seasonal or temporary farm work when there are not enough domestic workers available.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| H-2A temporary agricultural worker program canonical | 1 |
| Replenishment Agricultural Worker program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10625226 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H-2A temporary agricultural worker program Context triple: [Special Agricultural Worker program, relatedTo, H-2A temporary agricultural worker program]
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A.
Special Agricultural Worker program
The Special Agricultural Worker program was a U.S. immigration initiative that granted legal status to certain undocumented farmworkers who met specific agricultural employment requirements.
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B.
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that sets labor standards and protections for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, regulating wages, housing, transportation, and employment disclosures.
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C.
Bracero Program
The Bracero Program was a bilateral labor agreement between the United States and Mexico that brought millions of Mexican workers to the U.S. to fill agricultural and railroad labor shortages from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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D.
H-2B
H-2B is a Japanese expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, primarily used to launch the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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E.
Ley de Migración
La Ley de Migración es la normativa mexicana que regula la entrada, estancia, derechos y obligaciones de las personas extranjeras en el territorio nacional, así como las facultades de las autoridades migratorias.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H-2A temporary agricultural worker program Target entity description: The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program is a U.S. visa program that allows agricultural employers to hire foreign nationals for seasonal or temporary farm work when there are not enough domestic workers available.
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A.
Special Agricultural Worker program
The Special Agricultural Worker program was a U.S. immigration initiative that granted legal status to certain undocumented farmworkers who met specific agricultural employment requirements.
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B.
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that sets labor standards and protections for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, regulating wages, housing, transportation, and employment disclosures.
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C.
Bracero Program
The Bracero Program was a bilateral labor agreement between the United States and Mexico that brought millions of Mexican workers to the U.S. to fill agricultural and railroad labor shortages from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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D.
H-2B
H-2B is a Japanese expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, primarily used to launch the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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E.
Ley de Migración
La Ley de Migración es la normativa mexicana que regula la entrada, estancia, derechos y obligaciones de las personas extranjeras en el territorio nacional, así como las facultades de las autoridades migratorias.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. temporary worker visa program
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nonimmigrant visa category ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Department of Labor NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Department of State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allowsDependents | H-4 nonimmigrant classification for spouse and unmarried children under 21 ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| covers |
crop production
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livestock production ⓘ other agricultural labor or services as defined by regulation ⓘ |
| durationType |
seasonal
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temporary ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
employer must demonstrate insufficient available U.S. workers
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employment must not adversely affect wages and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers ⓘ job must be temporary or seasonal in nature ⓘ |
| employerObligation |
comply with applicable federal and state employment laws
ⓘ
keep records of hours worked and wages paid ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicScope | employment within the United States and its territories ⓘ |
| intendedToAddress | shortages of domestic agricultural labor ⓘ |
| laborCertificationType | temporary labor certification ⓘ |
| laborMarketTest | domestic recruitment of U.S. workers ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Immigration and Nationality Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumInitialStay | up to one year ⓘ |
| maximumTotalStay | generally up to three years with extensions ⓘ |
| nonimmigrantClass | H class ⓘ |
| petitionFiledBy | U.S. agricultural employer or association of agricultural producers ⓘ |
| petitionForm | Form I-129 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prohibits | self-petitioning by workers ⓘ |
| purpose | to allow U.S. agricultural employers to hire foreign workers for temporary or seasonal agricultural work ⓘ |
| requires |
employer to pay at least the adverse effect wage rate or applicable minimum wage
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employer to pay inbound and outbound transportation in many cases ⓘ employer to provide housing to H-2A workers when they cannot reasonably return to their residence the same day ⓘ employer to provide meals or kitchen facilities to workers ⓘ employer to provide or reimburse transportation between workers’ home and place of employment under certain conditions ⓘ employer to provide written work contract or job order to workers ⓘ employer to recruit U.S. workers before hiring foreign workers ⓘ temporary labor certification from U.S. Department of Labor ⓘ |
| sector | agriculture ⓘ |
| visaApplicationForm | Form DS-160 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visaClassification | H-2A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workerNationality | foreign nationals ⓘ |
| workerRightsInclude |
protection from retaliation for asserting rights under the program
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right to be paid at least the offered wage ⓘ right to safe and sanitary housing when provided ⓘ right to transportation reimbursement under program rules ⓘ |
| workerStatus | nonimmigrant ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: H-2A temporary agricultural worker program Description of subject: The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program is a U.S. visa program that allows agricultural employers to hire foreign nationals for seasonal or temporary farm work when there are not enough domestic workers available.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Replenishment Agricultural Worker program