PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide greater protection for U.S. and foreign workers without interfering with an employer's right to obtain temporary aliens to work in specialty occupations.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Labor Management Services;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Small business;
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Quasi-public non-profit organization;
- Other private institution/organization;
- Builder/Contractor/Developer;
- Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer;
- Industrialist/Business Person;
- Small Business Person;
- Refugee/Alien;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Small business (less than 500 employees);
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;
- Other private institutions/organizations;