Biden Administration announce 20,000 H-2B Visas for First Half of 2022. More than 20,000 H-2B visas will be available for fiscal year 2022, designed to attract a large number of foreign workers to the United States for temporary non-farm work. The decision was confirm by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
While a statement release by the same service emphasizes that Americans interest in hiring a large number of foreign workers before March 31 Visa will be deferred for employers, 2022, according to VisaGuide.World. Biden Administration Makes Available Another 20,000 H-2B visas.
The Department of Homeland Security granted additional H-2B visas for the first time in the first half of the fiscal year. The additional H-2B visas will help the economic sector recover, according to Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas.
DHS is taking action to protect US businesses and create opportunities that will increase legal opportunities in the United States for workers in the Northern Triangle and Haiti. In the coming months, DHS will strive to implement policies that make the H-2B program even more responsive to the needs of our economy while protecting the rights of both US and non-US workers,” Mayorkas said.
According to USCIS, the additional allocation of H-2B visas includes 13,500 visas issue to workers who receive H-2B visas or who were grant H-2B status in one of the previous three fiscal years. Biden Administration Makes Available Another 20,000 H-2B visas for 2022.
In addition, the remaining 6,500 visas, which are not subject to the return of workers requirement, are reserve for citizens of Haiti, as well as the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
H-2B visa program has had per year quota of 66,000 for the following countries since January 19, 2020:
Argentina, Andorra, Austria, Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Brunei, Brazil, Canada, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, The Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Fiji, France, Greece, Grenada, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Honduras, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Jamaica, Kiribati, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Luxembourg.
Malta, Moldova, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Mongolia, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nauru, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Panama, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Portugal, San Marino, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Slovenia, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uruguay and Vanuatu.
In November, US officials announce that citizens of Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, Saint Lucia, and Mauritius will eligible for the US H-2A and H-2B visa programs starting next year. So, eligible because these countries have been add to the list of territories whose citizens are eligible for such a visa.
In addition, the Department of Home Affairs and Security also stress that citizens of the Dominican Republic will also allowed to participate in the H-2B visa program starting next year.
