Editorial: Visa program shortfall is hurting N.C.
Story Date: 7/6/2017

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/5/17

Seasonal foreign workers are crucial to North Carolina businesses such as seafood and landscaping, and the H-2B visa program allowed businesses to get seasonal workers. They’re crucial for North Carolina, which has more H-2B visas than all states except for Texas and Colorado. But Congress has not renewed an exemption that allowed returning workers to keep coming back to the U.S. without their numbers counting against the cap in the program.

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