Reading Room Document

Status of Nonimmigrant Alien Temporary Workers During a Strike

Conclusion of prior opinion, 3 Op. O.L.C. 179 (1979), relating to status of nonimmigrant alien soccer players during a strike in North American Soccer League, reconsidered and affirmed. There may be situations in which Immigration and Naturalization Service regulation requiring a nonimmigrant temporary worker, as a condition of his or her continued stay in this country, to cease working during a strike, would be sustained as a valid exercise of the Attorney General's authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22451/download.

February 1, 1980