Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visa Cap Exceeded for the First Half of FY 2023

Under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 18,216 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start dates on or before March 31, 2023. They are still accepting petitions for H-2B nonimmigrant workers for the 20,000 additional visas available to nationals of Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. They just began accepting H-2B petitions under the temporary final rule issued on December 15, which increased…Read More Breaking News