Employers have submitted enough petitions to meet a cap for additional H-2B seasonal worker visas the Biden administration released to hire returning workers for the summer months.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this month released 35,000 supplemental visas for seasonal, non-farm jobs to help employers bring in additional workers amid an ongoing labor shortage. The agency reserved 23,500 positions for workers who received an H-2B visa in the previous three fiscal years. Those visa slots have all been filled, USCIS announced Tuesday.
Another 11,500 visas were reserved for nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti. USCIS is still ...
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