Agriculture Workforce Reform Act of 2025

The Agriculture Workforce Reform Act of 2025 would create a new, temporary nonimmigrant status for certain agricultural workers who have previously performed agricultural labor in the United States. Eligible workers (a “covered alien”) could apply to admit their status for up to three years, with the possibility of renewal for additional three-year periods. The bill would waive certain grounds of inadmissibility and removability for these workers during a defined “covered period” (the date of enactment through three years after enactment) and would shield both employers and workers from specific immigration-enforcement actions for conduct prior to admission. It would require both the worker and the employer to pay at least a $2,500 fee, and it would strictly limit eligibility to workers who have a documented history of agricultural labor (at least two years between 2021 and departure/removal) and who did not unlawfully receive federal or state/local public benefits. The status created is temporary (nonimmigrant) and does not itself provide a path to permanent residence. In short, the bill aims to expand and regularize a temporary, supervised guest-worker pathway for farm labor, with substantial fees and legal protections for employers, but it also creates broad immunity from certain enforcement provisions during the admission period.