H-2B Cap reached for 2017

Congress passed a spending package to fund federal agencies through September 30, 2021. If signed into law, the omnibus bill and COVID-19 relief package will extend certain immigration programs set to expire, grant authority to DHS to increase the number of H-2B visas, and provide COVID-19 relief to mixed-status families.

DHS published a notice of the 81 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A program and the 80 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2B program. The designations are effective January 19, 2021, and shall be without effect after January 18, 2022. Changes include adding the Philippines to the list of countries eligible to participate in the H-2B program, no longer designating the Independent State of Samoa and Tonga as eligible countries for the H-2A and H-2B programs, and no longer designating Mongolia as an eligible country for the H-2A program.

On February 26, USCIS published an announcement that the cap on H-2B petitions for the second half of fiscal year 2020 has been met. Any petitions filed… 

USCIS published the list of countries whose nationals are eligible for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs, which allow foreign workers to fill temporary agricultural… 

USCIS announced that employers whose H‑2B application was processed in FLAG must include a printed copy of the electronic one-page “final determination” of their H‑2B temporary…