Assistance program
Temporary Labor Certification for Foreign Workers
$152.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Employment and Training Administration, Labor, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Provision of Specialized Services;Federal Employment
- CFDA number
- 17.273
- What it does
- To assure that the admission of foreign workers into the United States will not adversely affect the job opportunities, wages, and working conditions of U.S. workers. To ensure that adequate wages and working conditions are provided for foreign and U.S. workers. To assist U.S. employers seeking to hire temporary foreign workers when no able, willing, and qualified U.S. workers are available.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- U.S. employers may apply for temporary labor certification.
- Authorized by
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended, Sections 101(a)(15)(H), 212(n), 214(c) and 214(i)
- Immigration Act of 1990
- Omnibus Insular Areas Act of 1991
- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$152.6M
100%
Other
$161.6K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments