{"description":"Documents matching 'security lock something visa does'","count":69,"total_pages":4,"next_page_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents?conditions%5Bterm%5D=security+lock+something+visa+does&format=json&page=2","results":[{"title":"Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions","type":"Rule","abstract":"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations governing the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B registrations for unique beneficiaries for filing of H-1B cap-subject petitions (or H-1B petitions for any year in which the registration requirement is suspended). Through this rule, DHS is implementing a weighted selection process that will generally favor the allocation of H-1B visas to higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens, while maintaining the opportunity for employers to secure H-1B workers at all wage levels, to better serve the congressional intent for the H-1B program. This rule will be effective in time for the FY 2027 registration season.","document_number":"2025-23853","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-29/pdf/2025-23853.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23853.pdf?1766497516","publication_date":"2025-12-29","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"}],"excerpts":"Likewise, DHS is not persuaded by the research cited by a commenter concluding that H-1B “<span class=\"match\">visa</span> restrictions lead to offshoring.” \n 20 \n \n This analysis primarily discussed “<span class=\"match\">visa</span> restrictions” in terms of companies unable to hire H-1B workers due to the statutory 65,000 <span class=\"match\">visa</span> cap and not because they were not selected “by pure `luck' of the H-1B lottery process.” However, this rule <span class=\"match\">does</span> not restrict the number of H-1B <span class=\"match\">visas</span> available under the statutory cap, nor <span class=\"match\">does</span> it preclude any company from selection in the H-1B cap selection process.\n \n \n \n 19 \n"},{"title":"EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022; Ensuring the Integrity of the EB-5 Program; Automatic Revocation of Petitions for Immigrant Classification","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would implement the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA), which the President signed on March 15, 2022. The RIA substantially reforms and adds significant integrity provisions to the employment-based, fifth preference (EB-5) visa category for alien investors and the associated Regional Center Program. In general, under the EB-5 program, aliens are eligible to apply for lawful permanent resident status in the United States if they make the necessary investment in a new commercial enterprise in the United States and create 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.","document_number":"2026-13392","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/02/2026-13392/eb-5-reform-and-integrity-act-of-2022-ensuring-the-integrity-of-the-eb-5-program-automatic","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-07-02/pdf/2026-13392.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-13392.pdf?1782909918","publication_date":"2026-07-02","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"}],"excerpts":"pre-process the immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> application. As part of the process, the NVC requests the immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> application fee and all documents. The NVC will hold a petition and all documentation until an immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> interview can be scheduled at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate. \n See \n Bureau of Consular Affairs, State, “National <span class=\"match\">Visa</span> Center,” \n https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-<span class=\"match\">visas</span>/immigrate/national-<span class=\"match\">visa</span>-center.html \n (last visited Apr. 3, 2025).\n \n \n \n \n 10 \n  When demand for a <span class=\"match\">visa</span> exceeds the number of <span class=\"match\">visas</span> available for that category"},{"title":"Sentencing Guidelines for United States Courts","type":"Notice","abstract":"The United States Sentencing Commission is considering promulgating amendments to the sentencing guidelines, policy statements, and commentary. This notice sets forth the proposed amendments and, for each proposed amendment, a synopsis of the issues addressed by that proposed amendment. This notice also sets forth several issues for comment, some of which are set forth together with the proposed amendments, and one of which (regarding retroactive application of proposed amendments) is set forth in the Supplementary Information section of this notice.","document_number":"2024-31279","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/02/2024-31279/sentencing-guidelines-for-united-states-courts","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-02/pdf/2024-31279.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-31279.pdf?1735652711","publication_date":"2025-01-02","agencies":[{"raw_name":"UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION","name":"United States Sentencing Commission","id":515,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/united-states-sentencing-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/515","parent_id":null,"slug":"united-states-sentencing-commission"}],"excerpts":"critical infrastructure(s) is so substantial as to have a debilitating impact on national <span class=\"match\">security</span>, national economic <span class=\"match\">security</span>, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.\n \n \n (C) \n Downward Departure Consideration. \n —There may be cases in which the offense level determined under this guideline substantially overstates the seriousness of the offense. In such cases, a downward departure may be warranted.\n \n For example, a <span class=\"match\">securities</span> fraud involving a fraudulent statement made publicly to the market may produce an aggregate"},{"title":"Modernizing H-2 Program Requirements, Oversight, and Worker Protections","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations affecting temporary agricultural (H-2A) and temporary nonagricultural (H-2B) nonimmigrant workers (H-2 programs) and their employers. This notice of proposed rulemaking is intended to better ensure the integrity of the H-2 programs and enhance protections for workers.","document_number":"2023-20123","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/20/2023-20123/modernizing-h-2-program-requirements-oversight-and-worker-protections","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-09-20/pdf/2023-20123.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-20123.pdf?1695080051","publication_date":"2023-09-20","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"}],"excerpts":"that the number of H-2A <span class=\"match\">visas</span> issued has increased by over 365 percent over the last decade, reaching 257,898 <span class=\"match\">visas</span> issued in fiscal year (FY) 2021, compared to 55,384 <span class=\"match\">visas</span> issued in fiscal year 2011.\n 13 \n \n With regard to the H-2B program, because Congress has capped the number of H-2B <span class=\"match\">visas</span> available, the number of H-2B <span class=\"match\">visas</span> issued has not increased at the same rate as H-2A <span class=\"match\">visas</span>. Yet, DOS data indicate that issuance of H-2B <span class=\"match\">visas</span> nearly doubled between fiscal year 2011 (50,826 <span class=\"match\">visas</span>) and fiscal year 2021 (95,053 <span class=\"match\">visas</span>).\n 14 \n \n Because the recent"},{"title":"Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule seeks to advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information through proposals for: standards adoption; adoption of certification criteria to advance public health data exchange; expanded uses of certified application programming interfaces, such as for electronic prior authorization, patient access, care management, and care coordination; and information sharing under the information blocking regulations. It proposes to establish a new baseline version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability. The proposed rule would update the ONC Health IT Certification Program to enhance interoperability and optimize certification processes to reduce burden and costs. The proposed rule would also implement certain provisions related to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which would support the reliability, privacy, security, and trust within TEFCA.","document_number":"2024-14975","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/05/2024-14975/health-data-technology-and-interoperability-patient-engagement-information-sharing-and-public-health","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-08-05/pdf/2024-14975.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-14975.pdf?1721825115","publication_date":"2024-08-05","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"made available to the API User's application. \n \n We are aware that there is a planned update to UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1, UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1.0.1, that may publish after the publication of this proposed rule. We anticipate that UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1.0.1 will fix errors within the UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1 and not include substantial revisions. As an alternative proposal to adopting the UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1 in § 170.215(o)(1), we propose to adopt UDAP <span class=\"match\">Security</span> IG v1.0.1 in § 170.215(o)(1) if it is published prior to publication of a final rule finalizing policies"},{"title":"Control of Communicable Diseases; Foreign Quarantine: Importation of Dogs and Cats","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issues this final rule to provide clarity and safeguards that address the public health risk of dog-maintained rabies virus variant (DMRVV) associated with the importation of dogs into the United States. This final rule addresses the importation of cats as part of overall changes to the regulations affecting both dogs and cats, but the final rule does not require that imported cats be accompanied by proof of rabies vaccination and does not substantively change how cats are imported into the United States.","document_number":"2024-09676","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09676/control-of-communicable-diseases-foreign-quarantine-importation-of-dogs-and-cats","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-13/pdf/2024-09676.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-09676.pdf?1715181316","publication_date":"2024-05-13","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"g-against-rabies-to-save-lives. \n \n \n \n \n 211 \n  Kilroy, A. How much <span class=\"match\">do</span> dog vaccinations cost? March 29, 2023. Available at: \n www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/pet-care/how-much-<span class=\"match\">do</span>-dog-vaccinations-cost/. \n \n \n 212 \n  Kilroy, A. How much <span class=\"match\">does</span> a vet visit cost? March 29, 2023. Available at: \n www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/pet-care/how-much-<span class=\"match\">does</span>-vet-visit-cost/. \n \n \n \n \n 213 \n  Coy, W. How much <span class=\"match\">does</span> dog boarding cost? Available at: \n www.rover.com/blog/how-much-<span class=\"match\">does</span>-dog-boarding-cost/. \n \n \n \n Comment: \n HHS/CDC received 14 comments suggesting"},{"title":"Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is amending its regulations governing the certification of temporary employment of nonimmigrant workers employed in temporary or seasonal agricultural employment and the enforcement of the contractual obligations applicable to employers of these nonimmigrant workers. The revisions in this final rule focus on strengthening protections for temporary agricultural workers and enhancing the Department's capabilities to monitor program compliance and take necessary enforcement actions against program violators.","document_number":"2024-08333","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/29/2024-08333/improving-protections-for-workers-in-temporary-agricultural-employment-in-the-united-states","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-29/pdf/2024-08333.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-08333.pdf?1714135518","publication_date":"2024-04-29","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Employment and Training Administration","name":"Employment and Training Administration","id":133,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/employment-and-training-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/133","parent_id":271,"slug":"employment-and-training-administration"},{"raw_name":"Wage and Hour Division","name":"Wage and Hour Division","id":524,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/wage-and-hour-division","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/524","parent_id":271,"slug":"wage-and-hour-division"}],"excerpts":"documentation is not otherwise required, to prove that they <span class=\"match\">do</span> or <span class=\"match\">do</span> not satisfy the factors, provided that the alternative documentation actually demonstrates their eligibility. \n Employers must establish their eligibility for the H-2A program, including that they have a temporary or seasonal need. Should the situation arise that an employer must establish that it is not a single employer with another entity to establish that it <span class=\"match\">does</span> in fact have a temporary or seasonal need, the Department <span class=\"match\">does</span> not believe this to be an undue burden, as this is a statutory"},{"title":"Negative Option Rule","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"The Federal Trade Commission (\"FTC\" or \"Commission\") seeks public comment on proposed amendments to the Commission's Negative Option Rule (or \"Rule\") to combat unfair or deceptive practices that include recurring charges for products or services consumers do not want and cannot cancel without undue difficulty.","document_number":"2023-07035","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/24/2023-07035/negative-option-rule","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-04-24/pdf/2023-07035.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-07035.pdf?1682081114","publication_date":"2023-04-24","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION","name":"Federal Trade Commission","id":192,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-trade-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/192","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-trade-commission"}],"excerpts":" Thus, the record <span class=\"match\">does</span> not support an assertion that such an agreement is inherently unfair.\n \n \n Subscriptions and other negative option arrangements that <span class=\"match\">do</span> not involve physical goods, however, present a different issue. As some commenters explained, because these services may have no regular, tangible presence for consumers (\n e.g., \n data <span class=\"match\">security</span> monitoring or subscriptions for online services), many consumers may reasonably forget they enrolled in such plans and, as a result, incur perpetual charges for services they <span class=\"match\">do</span> not want or use. Thus"},{"title":"Negative Option Rule","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Federal Trade Commission (\"FTC\" or \"Commission\") issues final amendments to the Commission's trade regulation \"Rule Concerning Use of Prenotification Negative Option Plans,\" retitled the \"Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs\" (\"Rule,\" \"final Rule\" or \"Negative Option Rule\"). The final Rule now applies to all negative option programs in any media. This document also contains the text of the final Rule, the Rule's Statement of Basis and Purpose (\"SBP\"), and a final regulatory analysis.","document_number":"2024-25534","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/15/2024-25534/negative-option-rule","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-11-15/pdf/2024-25534.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-25534.pdf?1731591921","publication_date":"2024-11-15","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION","name":"Federal Trade Commission","id":192,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-trade-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/192","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-trade-commission"}],"excerpts":"affirmatively renewed, or it cancels) a negative option feature. There are situations in which sellers only offer products or services on a negative option basis; however, <span class=\"match\">doing</span> so <span class=\"match\">does</span> not lessen the need to ensure consumers consent to the negative option mechanism within the agreement. Therefore, the analysis below <span class=\"match\">does</span> not separately address this issue.\n \n \n (1) The Commission <span class=\"match\">does</span> not adopt a requirement for separate consent to “the rest of the transaction” because it is unnecessary, confusing, and hard to implement. \n \n \n Based on the comments,"},{"title":"Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Federal Trade Commission (\"FTC\" or \"Commission\"), with the concurrence of the Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice (\"Assistant Attorney General\" or \"Antitrust Division\") (together the \"Agencies\"), is issuing this final rule and Statement of Basis and Purpose (\"SBP\") to amend the Premerger Notification Rules (the \"Rules\") that implement the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act (\"the HSR Act\" or \"HSR\"), including the Premerger Notification and Report Form for Certain Mergers and Acquisitions (\"Form\") and Instructions to the Notification and Report Form for Certain Mergers and Acquisitions (\"Instructions\"). The final rule requires parties to transactions that are reportable under the HSR Act to provide documentary material and information that are necessary and appropriate for the Agencies to efficiently and effectively conduct an initial assessment to determine whether the transaction may violate the antitrust laws and whether to issue a Request for Additional Information (\"Second Request\") as provided by the HSR Act. In addition, the final rule implements certain requirements of the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (\"Merger Modernization Act\") and ministerial changes to the Rules as well as the necessary amendments to the Instructions to effect the final changes.","document_number":"2024-25024","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/12/2024-25024/premerger-notification-reporting-and-waiting-period-requirements","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-11-12/pdf/2024-25024.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-25024.pdf?1731073564","publication_date":"2024-11-12","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION","name":"Federal Trade Commission","id":192,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-trade-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/192","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-trade-commission"}],"excerpts":"anticipates will capture the transactions of many investors that <span class=\"match\">do</span> not seek to influence, direct, or manage the companies in which they invest. \n See \n section VI.A.1.f. The Commission has relieved such transactions from many of the new requirements, which it anticipates will mitigate the potential burden of providing information for many investors who <span class=\"match\">do</span> have to file.\n \n As to investors that <span class=\"match\">do</span> not have HSR filing obligations but hold minority interests in entities that <span class=\"match\">do</span>, the final rule <span class=\"match\">does</span> require additional information about some minority investors"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health Program","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule contains provisions to improve implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including payment parameters and provisions related to the HHS-operated risk adjustment and risk adjustment data validation (HHS-RADV) programs, as well as 2027 user fee rates for issuers offering qualified health plans (QHPs) through Federally-facilitated Exchanges (FFEs) and State-based Exchanges on the Federal platform (SBE-FPs). This final rule also includes provisions related to civil money penalties (CMPs) for noncompliant issuers and other responsible entities; standards governing agents, brokers, and web-brokers; the expansion and codification of hardship exemption eligibility; implementation of the State Exchange Improper Payment Measurement (SEIPM); provider access standards and essential community provider standards for QHP certification; QHP certification of non-network plans; a prohibition on issuers from including routine non-pediatric dental services as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB); requirements related to defrayal for the cost of any State-required benefits in addition to the EHB; cost- sharing flexibilities for catastrophic and individual market bronze plans; establishment of catastrophic plans with plan terms of up to 10 consecutive plan years; QHP issuer quality improvement strategies (QISs); and revisions affecting which enrollees are included in Federal Basic Health Program (BHP) payment calculations to States. This final rule also includes amendments to implement certain provisions of the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC) legislation.","document_number":"2026-10050","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/20/2026-10050/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-hhs-notice-of-benefit-and-payment-parameters-for-2027-and","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-20/pdf/2026-10050.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10050.pdf?1779135308","publication_date":"2026-05-20","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"immigration status through DHS that <span class=\"match\">does</span> not use SAVE.\n \n \n This proposal <span class=\"match\">does</span> not expand data transmission requirements nor <span class=\"match\">does</span> it require State Exchanges to establish new connections to SAVE. We currently provide a connection to DHS through the VLP Hub service, which connects to DHS SAVE. For Exchanges that already use the VLP Hub service to verify applicants' lawful presence, Exchanges can meet the requirements in this rule \n \n by continuing to submit requests to the VLP Hub service in the same way they <span class=\"match\">do</span> today, and the VLP Hub service will"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule revises standards relating to denial of coverage for failure to pay past-due premium; excludes Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of \"lawfully present;\" establishes the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; revises the Exchange automatic reenrollment hierarchy; revises standards related to the annual open enrollment period and special enrollment periods; revises standards relating to failure to file and reconcile, income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, annual eligibility redeterminations, de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements, and income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations. This final rule also revises the premium adjustment percentage methodology and prohibits issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for specified sex-trait modification procedures as an EHB.","document_number":"2025-11606","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/25/2025-11606/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-25/pdf/2025-11606.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-11606.pdf?1750709712","publication_date":"2025-06-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"37522), section 1557 of the ACA <span class=\"match\">does</span> not include immigration status. Similarly, this proposal <span class=\"match\">does</span> not violate section 1554 of the ACA. In \n California \n v. \n Azar, \n the Ninth Circuit held that section 1554 of the ACA is intended to ensure that HHS <span class=\"match\">does</span> not “improperly impose regulatory burdens on doctors and patients,” not to restrict HHS' ability to “ensure government funds are not spent for an unauthorized purpose.” \n 44 \n \n \n \n \n 44 \n  \n California \n v. \n Azar, \n 950 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2020).\n \n \n \n Furthermore, we <span class=\"match\">do</span> not agree that the proposed"},{"title":"Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations","type":"Rule","abstract":"In this final rule, the Department of Labor (Department or DOL) updates regulations issued under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. As the first comprehensive regulatory review in nearly 40 years, revisions to these regulations will promote compliance, provide appropriate and updated guidance, and enhance their usefulness in the modern economy.","document_number":"2023-17221","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/23/2023-17221/updating-the-davis-bacon-and-related-acts-regulations","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-08-23/pdf/2023-17221.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-17221.pdf?1691698521","publication_date":"2023-08-23","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"appropriate. The Department also considered whether it would be possible to combine BLS surveys or use underlying BLS microdata instead of the Department's wage surveys but determined that the BLS's methodology <span class=\"match\">does</span> not allow such a procedure because, among other reasons, BLS <span class=\"match\">does</span> not collect data on a project-by-project basis and therefore <span class=\"match\">does</span> not capture circumstances in which employees may be paid different hourly rates for work based on the type of project. Finally, the Department's conclusion is bolstered by the widespread practice of states,"},{"title":"Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Nonimmigrants in the United States","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is amending its regulations governing the certification of agricultural labor or services to be performed by temporary foreign workers in H-2A nonimmigrant status (H-2A workers) and enforcement of the contractual obligations applicable to employers of such nonimmigrant workers. These regulations are consistent with the Secretary of Labor's (Secretary) statutory responsibility to certify that there are not sufficient able, willing, and qualified workers available to fill the petitioning employer's job opportunity, and that the employment of H-2A workers in that job opportunity will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed. Among the issues addressed in this final rule are improving the minimum standards and conditions of employment that employers must offer to workers; expanding the Department's authority to use enforcement tools, such as program debarment for substantial violations of program requirements; modernizing the process by which the Department receives and processes employers' job orders and applications for temporary agricultural labor certifications, including the recruitment of United States workers (U.S. workers); and revising the standards and procedures for determining the prevailing wage rate. This final rule will strengthen protections for workers, modernize and simplify the H- 2A application and temporary labor certification process, and ease regulatory burdens on employers.","document_number":"2022-20506","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/12/2022-20506/temporary-agricultural-employment-of-h-2a-nonimmigrants-in-the-united-states","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-10-12/pdf/2022-20506.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-20506.pdf?1665060317","publication_date":"2022-10-12","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Employment and Training Administration","name":"Employment and Training Administration","id":133,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/employment-and-training-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/133","parent_id":271,"slug":"employment-and-training-administration"},{"raw_name":"Wage and Hour Division","name":"Wage and Hour Division","id":524,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/wage-and-hour-division","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/524","parent_id":271,"slug":"wage-and-hour-division"}],"excerpts":"obtain a <span class=\"match\">visa</span>, the Department proposed that the place from which the worker “departed” would mean the “appropriate” U.S. embassy or consulate. The Department proposed to define the “appropriate” U.S. embassy or consulate as the U.S. embassy or consulate that issued the <span class=\"match\">visa</span> but sought comment on other definitions of “appropriate” U.S. embassy or consulate, given the differences in <span class=\"match\">visa</span> processing procedures among overseas posts. The Department further sought comment on the place of “departure” for those H-2A workers who <span class=\"match\">do</span> not require a <span class=\"match\">visa</span> to obtain"},{"title":"OakmontScript Limited Partnership; Decision and Order","type":"Notice","abstract":null,"document_number":"2022-07719","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/11/2022-07719/oakmontscript-limited-partnership-decision-and-order","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-04-11/pdf/2022-07719.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-07719.pdf?1649421937","publication_date":"2022-04-11","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","name":"Justice Department","id":268,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/justice-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/268","parent_id":null,"slug":"justice-department"},{"raw_name":"Drug Enforcement Administration","name":"Drug Enforcement Administration","id":116,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/drug-enforcement-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/116","parent_id":268,"slug":"drug-enforcement-administration"}],"excerpts":"following exchange took place: \n \n \n Q \n  <span class=\"match\">Do</span> you agree that falsifying a DEA registration in this manner is a serious issue?\n \n \n A \n  I admit it. From, you know, when the DI 3 first time to—\n \n \n Q \n  I know you admitted it. But <span class=\"match\">do</span> you—or at some point you admitted it. But <span class=\"match\">do</span> you agree that this is a serious issue?\n \n \n A \n  Well, a serious issue to the consequences. And to the, you know, to what we're trying to <span class=\"match\">do</span>. And this is, \n I know if somebody killed, or if some pandemic we caused, \n or if <span class=\"match\">something</span> and it is a serious. But in our SOP we have"},{"title":"Security Bars and Processing","type":"Rule","abstract":"On July 9, 2020, DHS and DOJ (collectively, \"the Departments\") published a notice of proposed rulemaking (\"NPRM\") clarifying that the danger to the security of the United States statutory bar to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal may encompass emergency public health concerns. This final rule responds to comments received in response to the NPRM and reflects (and in some instances, modifies) intervening changes made to the regulatory framework by Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review, published December 11, 2020 (\"Global Asylum Final Rule\"). Namely, it amends existing regulations to clarify that in certain circumstances there are \"reasonable grounds for regarding [an] alien as a danger to the security of the United States\" or \"reasonable grounds to believe that [an] alien is a danger to the security of the United States\" based on emergency public health concerns generated by a communicable disease, making the alien ineligible to be granted asylum in the United States under section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (\"INA\") or the protection of withholding of removal under the INA (\"statutory withholding of removal\") or subsequent regulations (because of the threat of torture). The final rule further allows DHS to exercise its prosecutorial discretion regarding how to process individuals subject to expedited removal who are determined to be ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal in the United States because they are subject to the danger to the security of the United States. Finally, the rule modifies the process in expedited removal proceedings for screening aliens for potential eligibility for deferral of removal (who are ineligible for withholding of removal as subject to the danger to the security of the United States bar).","document_number":"2020-28436","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28436/security-bars-and-processing","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-12-23/pdf/2020-28436.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-28436.pdf?1608644756","publication_date":"2020-12-23","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"},{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","name":"Justice Department","id":268,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/justice-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/268","parent_id":null,"slug":"justice-department"},{"raw_name":"Executive Office for Immigration Review","name":"Executive Office for Immigration Review","id":149,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/executive-office-for-immigration-review","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/149","parent_id":268,"slug":"executive-office-for-immigration-review"}],"excerpts":"defined “national <span class=\"match\">security</span>” to mean “the national defense and foreign relations of the United States.” \n 17 \n \n That version of the bill may have considered economic concerns as separate from national <span class=\"match\">security</span> concerns. For example, it provided that in designating a foreign terrorist organization, the Secretary of State would have had to find that “the organization's terrorism activities threaten the <span class=\"match\">security</span> of United States citizens, national <span class=\"match\">security</span>, foreign policy, or the economy of the United States”—listing ”national <span class=\"match\">security</span>” and “the economy”"},{"title":"Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) is amending Employment and Training Administration (ETA) regulations governing the prevailing wages for employment opportunities that United States (U.S.) employers seek to fill with foreign workers on a permanent or temporary basis through certain employment-based immigrant visas or through H-1B, H-1B1, or E-3 nonimmigrant visas. Specifically, DOL is amending its regulations governing permanent labor certifications and Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) to incorporate changes to the computation of wage levels under the Department's four-tiered wage structure based on the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The primary purpose of these changes is to update the computation of prevailing wage levels under the existing four-tier wage structure to better reflect the actual wages earned by U.S. workers similarly employed to foreign workers. This update will allow DOL to more effectively ensure that the employment of immigrant and nonimmigrant workers admitted or otherwise provided status through the above-referenced programs does not adversely affect the wages and job opportunities of U.S. workers.","document_number":"2020-22132","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/08/2020-22132/strengthening-wage-protections-for-the-temporary-and-permanent-employment-of-certain-aliens-in-the","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-10-08/pdf/2020-22132.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-22132.pdf?1602015317","publication_date":"2020-10-08","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Employment and Training Administration","name":"Employment and Training Administration","id":133,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/employment-and-training-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/133","parent_id":271,"slug":"employment-and-training-administration"}],"excerpts":"nonimmigrant <span class=\"match\">visas</span>, H-1B <span class=\"match\">visas</span> are unusual in that they are “dual intent” <span class=\"match\">visas</span>, meaning under the INA H-1B workers can enter the U.S. on a temporary status while also seeking to adjust status to that of lawful permanent residents.\n 147 \n \n One of the most common pathways by which H-1B <span class=\"match\">visa</span> holders obtain lawful permanent resident status is through employment-based green cards, and in particular EB-2 and EB-3 <span class=\"match\">visas</span>.\n 148 \n \n USCIS has estimated that over 80 percent of all H-1B <span class=\"match\">visa</span> holders who adjust to lawful permanent resident status <span class=\"match\">do</span> so through"},{"title":"Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Contract Year 2022 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicaid Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule will revise regulations for the Medicare Advantage (Part C) program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D) program, Medicaid program, Medicare Cost Plan program, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to implement certain sections of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 and the Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment--(SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (hereinafter referred to as the SUPPORT Act), enhance the Part C and D programs and the PACE program, codify several existing CMS policies, make required statutory changes, implement other technical changes, and make routine updates. As stated in the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on June 2, 2020, CMS is fulfilling its intention to address the remaining proposals from the February 2020 proposed rule here. Although the provisions adopted in this second final rule will be in effect during 2021, most provisions will apply to coverage beginning January 1, 2022. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for proposals from the February 2020 proposed rule that would codify statutory requirements that were already in effect prior to this rule's appearance in the Federal Register, CMS reminds organizations, plan sponsors, and other readers that the statutory provisions apply and will continue to be enforced. Similarly, for the proposals from the February 2020 proposed rule that would implement the statutory requirements in sections 2007 and 2008 of the SUPPORT Act, CMS intends to implement these statutory provisions consistent with their effective provisions.","document_number":"2021-00538","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/19/2021-00538/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-contract-year-2022-policy-and-technical-changes-to-the-medicare","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-01-19/pdf/2021-00538.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-00538.pdf?1610718326","publication_date":"2021-01-19","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"}],"excerpts":"populations of special needs individuals. Second, an audio-only encounter <span class=\"match\">does</span> not permit the provider to see the patient to use visual clues (for example, bruising, physical symptoms, or lack of focus) that could indicate <span class=\"match\">something</span> is wrong with the patient. This is a requirement for only one visit of this type a year and <span class=\"match\">does</span> not prohibit the use of audio-only encounters when those are appropriate for addressing other health care needs or visits. Further, for enrollees who <span class=\"match\">do</span> not use telehealth or lack the technological resources for such encounters"},{"title":"EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule amends Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations governing the employment-based, fifth preference (EB-5) immigrant investor classification and associated regional centers to reflect statutory changes and modernize the EB-5 program. In general, under the EB-5 program, individuals are eligible to apply for lawful permanent residence in the United States if they make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and create or, in certain circumstances, preserve 10 full-time jobs for qualified United States workers. This rule provides priority date retention to certain EB-5 investors, increases the required minimum investment amounts, reforms targeted employment area designations, and clarifies USCIS procedures for the removal of conditions on permanent residence. DHS is issuing this rule to codify existing policies and change certain aspects of the EB-5 program in need of reform.","document_number":"2019-15000","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/24/2019-15000/eb-5-immigrant-investor-program-modernization","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-07-24/pdf/2019-15000.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-15000.pdf?1563885917","publication_date":"2019-07-24","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"}],"excerpts":"collect required information and file the immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> application with DOS. As noted above, the wait for the <span class=\"match\">visa</span> depends on the demand for immigrant <span class=\"match\">visas</span> in the EB-5 category and the petitioner's country of birth.\n 7 \n \n Generally, DOS authorizes the issuance of a <span class=\"match\">visa</span> and schedules the petitioner for an immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> interview for the month in which the priority date will be current. If the petitioner's immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> application is ultimately approved, he or she is issued an immigrant <span class=\"match\">visa</span> and, on the date of admission to the United States"},{"title":"Apprehension, Processing, Care, and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Alien Children","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule amends regulations relating to the apprehension, processing, care, custody, and release of alien juveniles. The rule replaces regulations that were promulgated in 1988 in response to a lawsuit filed in 1985 against the Attorney General and the Department of Justice's legacy U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in Flores v. Meese. In January 1997, the parties reached a comprehensive settlement agreement, referred to as the Flores Settlement Agreement (FSA). The FSA, as modified in 2001, provides that it will terminate forty-five days after publication of final regulations implementing the agreement. Since 1997, intervening legislation, including the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), have significantly altered the governing legal authorities relating to the detention, custody, processing, and release of alien juveniles. This final rule adopts regulations that implement the relevant and substantive terms of the FSA, consistent with the HSA and the TVPRA, with some modifications discussed further below to reflect intervening statutory and operational changes while still providing similar substantive protections and standards. The final rule satisfies the basic purpose of the FSA in ensuring that all alien juveniles in the government's custody pursuant to its authorities under the immigration laws are treated with dignity, respect, and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors, while doing so in a manner that is workable in light of subsequent statutory, factual, and operational changes and builds on the government's extensive experience working under the FSA. Most prominently, in response to great difficulty working under the state-licensing requirement for family residential centers, the final rule creates an alternative to the existing licensed program requirement for ICE family residential centers, so that ICE may use appropriate facilities to detain family units together during their immigration proceedings, consistent with applicable law.","document_number":"2019-17927","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/23/2019-17927/apprehension-processing-care-and-custody-of-alien-minors-and-unaccompanied-alien-children","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-08-23/pdf/2019-17927.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-17927.pdf?1566477920","publication_date":"2019-08-23","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"},{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"within the proposed regulations that may lead to disparate processes for determining age. The commenter stated that the proposed HHS language <span class=\"match\">does</span> not discuss the reasonable person standard, <span class=\"match\">does</span> not include a specific evidentiary standard through which to assess multiple forms of evidence, <span class=\"match\">does</span> discuss the non-exclusive use of radiographs where the DHS language <span class=\"match\">does</span> not mention radiographs as an option, and <span class=\"match\">does</span> not require a medical professional to administer the radiographs. The commenter suggested that DHS and HHS propose specific and identical"}]}