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US gov’t adds 20,000 H2-B visas amid worker shortage

This is the first time that the US Department of Homeland Security is making the supplemental H2-B visa cap available in the first half of the fiscal year, it said

By Undercurrent News | Dec. 28, 2021 19:01 GMT
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will add 20,000 new nonagricultural HB-2 visas, a category set aside for temporary workers in fields such as seafood processing, in 2022, the agency said [...]

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