🔔 DOL H-2A Labor Certifications (FY2026 Q3, quarter-to-date)

Structured H-2A labor certifications (ETA-9142A) — certified/decided seasonal agricultural job orders — read directly from the official U.S. Department of Labor Office of Foreign Labor Certification class-A bulk disclosure workbook at https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx. One record per non-empty case row, carried source-native with the value unmodified.

Output is one h2a_certification_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one h-2a certification record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per h-2a certification record). Source: www.dol.gov.

Who buys this

Buyers usually search for H-2A or H-2A visa employers.

• Analysts, researchers and journalists who need H-2A as clean rows.
• Risk, insurance and planning teams joining H-2A visa employers to their own data.
• Data teams that want the official source without building a scraper.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run J3G6H9wb1BpAl1KjD on build 0.1.5 (2026-09-19), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

case_number	case_status	received_date	decision_date	employer_application_type	nature_of_temporary_need
H-300-25249-291693	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-15T12:19:52	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25251-294314	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-12T15:48:03	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25254-301889	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-22T10:11:14	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25260-314952	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-23T20:31:11	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25260-315978	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-19T17:40:02	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25265-324272	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-30T17:19:03	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25265-324288	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-30T17:20:06	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal
H-300-25269-337322	Determination Issued - Withdrawn	2025-09-29T13:50:31	2025-10-31	Individual Employer	Seasonal

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:17 GMT. billable=50

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string/null) — e.g. h2a_certification_record
• source (string/null) — e.g. h2a-labor-certifications
• program (string/null) — e.g. H-2A
• case_number (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25249-291693
• case_status (string/null) — e.g. Determination Issued - Withdrawn
• received_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-09-15T12:19:52
• decision_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-10-31
• employer_application_type (string/null) — e.g. Individual Employer
• nature_of_temporary_need (string/null) — e.g. Seasonal
• h2a_labor_contractor (string/null) — e.g. N
• employer_name (string/null) — e.g. Win-Tex Ag Services LLC
• employer_trade_name (string/null) — e.g. Pecan Grove Farms
• employer_city (string/null) — e.g. Windthorst
• employer_state (string/null) — e.g. TX
• employer_country (string/null) — e.g. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• employer_naics (number/string/null) — e.g. 4841
• job_order_number (string/null) — e.g. JO-A-300-25249-291693
• soc_code (string/null) — e.g. 45-2093.00
• soc_title (string/null) — e.g. Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
• job_title (string/null) — e.g. Livestock Worker
• total_workers_needed (number/string/null) — e.g. 1
• total_workers_requested (number/string/null) — e.g. 1
• total_workers_certified (number/string/null) — null in every sample row
• requested_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-11-20
• requested_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-02-25
• employment_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-11-20
• employment_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-02-25
• wage_offer (number/string/null) — e.g. 15.79
• wage_per (string/null) — e.g. Hour
• piece_rate_offer (number/string/null) — e.g. 0
• piece_rate_unit (string/null) — e.g. N/A
• worksite_city (string/null) — e.g. Windthorst
• worksite_county (string/null) — e.g. ARCHER COUNTY
• worksite_state (string/null) — e.g. TX
• quarter_to_date (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3
• source_attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification
• changes_indicated (string/null) — e.g. reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; al
• third_party_content (string/null) — e.g. none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party ri
• allowlist_note (string/null) — e.g. STRUCTURAL ALLOW-LIST at ingest: employer/organization, job/occupation, SOC, off
• certification_note (string/null) — e.g. the H-2A CERTIFICATION decision master (ETA-9142A) — certified/decided SEASONAL
• quarter_to_date_note (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the q
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25249-291693
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:17 GMT
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T18:26:54Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 0aa2b58b57d08249f1e7caae99570ec0:1786128737.924573
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Dep
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol

✅ What you get

• record_type (string/null) — e.g. h2a_certification_record
• source (string/null) — e.g. h2a-labor-certifications
• program (string/null) — e.g. H-2A
• case_number (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25249-291693
• case_status (string/null) — e.g. Determination Issued - Withdrawn
• received_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-09-15T12:19:52
• decision_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-10-31
• employer_application_type (string/null) — e.g. Individual Employer
• nature_of_temporary_need (string/null) — e.g. Seasonal
• h2a_labor_contractor (string/null) — e.g. N
• employer_name (string/null) — e.g. Win-Tex Ag Services LLC
• employer_trade_name (string/null) — e.g. Pecan Grove Farms
• employer_city (string/null) — e.g. Windthorst
• employer_state (string/null) — e.g. TX
• employer_country (string/null) — e.g. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• employer_naics (number/string/null) — e.g. 4841
• job_order_number (string/null) — e.g. JO-A-300-25249-291693
• soc_code (string/null) — e.g. 45-2093.00
• soc_title (string/null) — e.g. Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
• job_title (string/null) — e.g. Livestock Worker
• total_workers_needed (number/string/null) — e.g. 1
• total_workers_requested (number/string/null) — e.g. 1
• total_workers_certified (number/string/null) — null in every sample row
• requested_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-11-20
• requested_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-02-25
• employment_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-11-20
• employment_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-02-25
• wage_offer (number/string/null) — e.g. 15.79
• wage_per (string/null) — e.g. Hour
• piece_rate_offer (number/string/null) — e.g. 0
• piece_rate_unit (string/null) — e.g. N/A
• worksite_city (string/null) — e.g. Windthorst
• worksite_county (string/null) — e.g. ARCHER COUNTY
• worksite_state (string/null) — e.g. TX
• quarter_to_date (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3
• source_attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification
• changes_indicated (string/null) — e.g. reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; al
• third_party_content (string/null) — e.g. none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party ri
• allowlist_note (string/null) — e.g. STRUCTURAL ALLOW-LIST at ingest: employer/organization, job/occupation, SOC, off
• certification_note (string/null) — e.g. the H-2A CERTIFICATION decision master (ETA-9142A) — certified/decided SEASONAL
• quarter_to_date_note (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the q
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25249-291693
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:17 GMT
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T18:17:14Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 0aa2b58b57d08249f1e7caae99570ec0:1786128737.924573
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Dep
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol

What a record is

One h2a_certification_record per H-2A seasonal-agricultural job order: the case identifiers, case status, received / decision dates, the employer (name, trade name, NAICS, city / state / country), the temporary-need / application type, the job / occupation (soc_code, soc_title, job_title), the worker counts (needed / H-2A requested / H-2A certified), the requested & employment begin/end dates, the offered wage (wage_offer, wage_per, piece_rate_offer, piece_rate_unit), and the primary worksite city / county / state. The record key is case_number (unique per case).

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 10
}

The sample run charged exactly: 2 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 50 × $0.02 h2a_certification_record = $1.04 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed. If you leave maxRecords out, the run delivers at most 50 rows (the schema default); pass a number up to 200000 for a bigger export. An explicit value is always honoured up to that maximum.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.12 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.02).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 5000
}

Up to 5000 rows — about $100.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5000 × $0.02) if the source has that many; maxRecords goes up to 200000.

4. A filtered run

{
  "maxRecords": 10,
  "fieldMatch": {
    "employer_application_type": "Individual Employer"
  }
}

Keeps only rows whose employer_application_type contains Individual Employer (a value from the sample run above), matched case-insensitively after the source is read and before the maxRecords cap, so the cap counts matches and only delivered matches are billed. searchText does the same across every column. Zero matches end the run as EMPTY_SELECTION with no row charged — if the source has moved on since that sample run, pick a value you see in your own first run. The source is still read in full — this narrows what you receive and pay for, not what the source serves.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run J3G6H9wb1BpAl1KjD, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "h2a_certification_record",
  "source": "h2a-labor-certifications",
  "program": "H-2A",
  "case_number": "H-300-25249-291693",
  "case_status": "Determination Issued - Withdrawn",
  "received_date": "2025-09-15T12:19:52",
  "decision_date": "2025-10-31",
  "employer_application_type": "Individual Employer",
  "nature_of_temporary_need": "Seasonal",
  "h2a_labor_contractor": "N",
  "employer_name": "Win-Tex Ag Services LLC",
  "employer_trade_name": null,
  "employer_city": "Windthorst",
  "employer_state": "TX",
  "employer_country": "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA",
  "employer_naics": 4841,
  "job_order_number": "JO-A-300-25249-291693",
  "soc_code": "45-2093.00",
  "soc_title": "Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals",
  "job_title": "Livestock Worker",
  "total_workers_needed": 1,
  "total_workers_requested": 1,
  "total_workers_certified": null,
  "requested_begin_date": "2025-11-20",
  "requested_end_date": "2026-02-25",
  "employment_begin_date": "2025-11-20",
  "employment_end_date": "2026-02-25",
  "wage_offer": 15.79,
  "wage_per": "Hour",
  "piece_rate_offer": null,
  "piece_rate_unit": null,
  "worksite_city": "Windthorst",
  "worksite_county": "ARCHER COUNTY",
  "worksite_state": "TX",
  "quarter_to_date": "FY2026 Q3",
  "source_attribution": "U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification",
  "changes_indicated": "reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; allow-listed structural columns only",
  "third_party_content": "none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party rights/trademarks/logos",
  "allowlist_note": "STRUCTURAL ALLOW-LIST at ingest: employer/organization, job/occupation, SOC, offered wage, worksite city+state (coarse) geography, dates and status/type ONLY. Employer point-of-contact, attorney/agent, law firm, preparer, e-mail, phone, app",
  "certification_note": "the H-2A CERTIFICATION decision master (ETA-9142A) — certified/decided SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL job orders (employer, occupation, SOC, offered wage, worksite, dates, statuses). Distinct from (a) the H-2A Addendum-B places-of-employment PLACEME",
  "quarter_to_date_note": "FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the quarter, not a final annual file; vintage = source ETag + Last-Modified carried on the run_receipt.",
  "source_url": "https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx",
  "record_key": "H-300-25249-291693",
  "release_date": "Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:17 GMT",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-19T18:26:54Z",
  "release_checksum": "0aa2b58b57d08249f1e7caae99570ec0:1786128737.924573",
  "license": "U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data: used, reproduced and distributed without permission and credited to the U.S. Department",
  "attribution": "U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol.gov/) — public domain"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.dol.gov — endpoints: https://www.dol.gov, https://www.dol.gov/, https://www.dol.gov/media/, https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. robots.txt is read first and a disallowed path is never fetched. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent. Pacing: CRAWL_DELAY=0.0.

Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each h-2a certification record is charged at the moment it is pushed (h2a_certification_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

Within the family — the agricultural certification master

This is the H-2A certification decision master. It is distinct from:

• the H-2A Addendum-B places-of-employment placement table (h2a-employment-locations — where / how-many), and
• the H-2B non-agricultural certifications (h2b-labor-certifications).

H-2A is the seasonal agricultural program; the flows are never conflated. A certification_note records this on every record.

Structural allow-list at ingest — person and contact columns never leave the source

The source workbook has 156 columns, many of them personal, contact, housing, or free-text requirement data. This actor applies a structural allow-list at ingest: only employer/organization, job/occupation, SOC, offered wage, worksite city + state (coarse) geography, dates and status/type are read into a record. Every employer point-of-contact, attorney/agent, law firm, preparer, e-mail, phone, apply-contact, street address, postal code, province, FEIN, housing address/detail, and free-text job-requirement column is dropped at ingest and never emitted — the code only ever copies the allow-listed columns, so a person/contact field cannot leak. This is verified by an offline test that feeds a row carrying attorney/contact/e-mail/phone/street values and asserts none reach output, plus a live leak check on the real file.

Quarter-to-date — a living workbook, not a final file

This is the FY2026 Q3 quarter-to-date workbook: a moving cut refreshed through the quarter, not a final annual file. A quarter_to_date label rides every record and the run receipt carries the source ETag and Last-Modified as the vintage. The workbook's declared sheet dimension is padded with blank rows; only rows carrying a case_number are data — blank padding is skipped and never billed (non-empty-row law).

Door

Only the official DOL OFLC bulk disclosure workbook on www.dol.gov/media is read (public, logged-out, no API key). No implied DOL affiliation or endorsement.

Source & licence

U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data: used, reproduced and distributed without permission and credited to the U.S. Department of Labor (https://www.dol.gov/); no implied DOL affiliation or endorsement; third-party rights/trademarks/logos excluded. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
H-2A certification record (h2a_certification_record)	$0.02	$0.018	$0.016	$0.0134

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 h-2a certification records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.02 = $0.18
• 25 h-2a certification records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.02 = $0.52
• 50 h-2a certification records: $0.02 start + 50 × $0.02 = $1.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 4096 MB.

Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:17 GMT. billable=50. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.dol.gov. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, keeps to the source's robots rules (checked on every run), identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.dol.gov) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 50). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other NexGen Watch actors actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.dol.gov. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source (CRAWL_DELAY=0.0) and honours its robots rules; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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