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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Thursday that it had received enough petitions to reach the H-2B visa cap for the second half of the 2023 fiscal year. The agency also announced filing dates for supplemental visas.
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Additional Information: In December, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor published a temporary final rule to provide a supplemental allotment of 64,716 H-2B visas for the 2023 fiscal year. Some of these visas remain available. USCIS published filing dates for the remaining visas Thursday.
BAL Analysis: H-2B visas remain in high demand. In the three-day filing period in January, the Labor Department received applications covering nearly 143,000 worker positions for 33,000 visas that will become available April 1. Employers who filed for cap-subject visas and did not receive them are encouraged to work with BAL on other options, including the possibility of applying for visas under the supplemental cap. BAL will host a webinar March 10 at 11 a.m. CT on H-2B visas and the H-2B cap. Registration details are available here.
This alert has been provided by the BAL U.S. Practice Group. For additional information, please contact berryapplemanleiden@bal.com.
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