| |
Source: PRESS RELEASE, 10/12/21
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough
petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary
nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2022. Sept. 30 was
the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B worker petitions requesting an
employment start date before April 1, 2022. USCIS will reject new cap-subject
H-2B petitions received after Sept. 30 that request an employment start date
before April 1, 2022.USCIS continues to accept H-2B petitions that are exempt from
the congressionally mandated cap. This includes petitions for:
- Current H-2B
workers in the United States who extend their stay, change employers, or
change the terms and conditions of their employment;
- Fish roe
processors, fish roe technicians, and/or supervisors of fish roe
processing; and
- Workers
performing labor or services in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana
Islands and/or Guam from Nov. 28, 2009, until Dec. 31, 2029.
U.S. businesses use the H-2B program to employ foreign workers for
temporary nonagricultural jobs. Currently, Congress has set the H-2B cap at
66,000 per fiscal year, with 33,000 for workers who begin employment in the
first half of the fiscal year (Oct. 1 - March 31) and 33,000 (plus any unused
numbers from the first half of the fiscal year) for workers who begin
employment in the second half of the fiscal year (April 1 - Sept. 30). For more information, visit the Cap Count for H-2B Nonimmigrants page.
|
