November 14, 2019
Ranchers who rely on migrant guest workers to fill shepherding and herding positions will soon lose the ability to keep those workers for longer-term labor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday in a new policy memo.
November 07, 2018
The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday refused to curb discovery in a lawsuit brought by a group of foreign sheepherders challenging the federal government's practice of handing out temporary work visas for longer-term labor.
August 17, 2018
The D.C. Circuit partly revived a suit Friday brought by a group of livestock herders challenging the government's practice of issuing temporary visas for longer-term labor.
March 19, 2018
The federal government and a pair of ranch advocate groups voiced their opposition on Friday to a D.C. Circuit challenge brought by organizations representing foreign-born shepherds that claim the government is illegally issuing the shepherds H-2A nonimmigrant temporary work visas even though their work is more permanent.
January 24, 2018
The H-2A nonimmigrant visas that allow foreign-born shepherds to work in the U.S. are unlawful because the available positions represent a permanent labor shortage and are thus not temporary, and that they open those shepherds up to abuse by their employers, asserted organizations representing the workers in a brief they filed Tuesday with the D.C. Circuit.