A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a special rule for the period of admission of H-2A nonimmigrants employed as sheepherders, goat herders, or dairy farmers, and for other purposes.
Dairy and Sheep H-2A Act or the DASH Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the H-2A nonimmigrant visa category (temporary agricultural workers) an alien coming temporarily to the United States to work as a sheepherder, goat herder, or dairy worker.
Provides: (1) for a three-year initial period of admission with additional three-year extensions, and (2) that no period of U.S. absence may be required for approval of such extensions.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue housing regulations for such workers.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2530-2531)
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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