USCIS, Nov. 16, 2023 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Department of Labor (DOL) published a temporary final rule making available an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 11/09/2023 "Under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may generally only approve petitions for H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant...
DHS, Nov. 3, 2023 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of Labor (DOL), announced that it expects to make an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas available for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024...
DOL, Oct. 19, 2023 "Today, in the White House H-2B Worker Protection Taskforce report, the U.S. Department of Labor joined the Department of Homeland Security, Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development to announce new efforts to strengthen...
USCIS, Oct. 13, 2023 "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 (FY) 2024. Oct. 11, 2023 was the...
OFLC, July 10, 2023 "To keep the public informed regarding the submission and assignment of H-2B applications for review, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) published the Assignment Groups for 2,157 H-2B applications covering 40,947 worker...
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DHS, Dec. 12, 2022 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are issuing a temporary final rule that makes available 64,716 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2023. These supplemental...
USCIS, Mar. 31, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 16,500 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start dates from...
USCIS, Mar. 2, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received enough petitions to meet the H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 and is announcing the filing dates for supplemental H-2B visas for the reminder of FY 2023...
OFLC, Feb. 14, 2023 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has published an updated list of the names of foreign labor recruiters for the H-2B program as required by 20 CFR 655.9(c) . The list contains the name and location of persons or entities...
OFLC, Feb. 9, 2023 "The Employment and Training Administration has issued a notice in the Federal Register to announce the annual updated dollar amount H-2A employers may charge workers, other than workers in herding or production of livestock on the range...
OFLC, Jan. 9, 2023 "To keep the public informed regarding the submission and assignment of H-2B applications for review, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) published the assignment group(s) for 8,693 H-2B applications covering 142,796 worker...
OFLC, Jan. 4, 2023 "OFLC Conducts Randomization Process on H-2B Applications Submitted Requesting an April 1, 2023, Work Start Date The Office of Foreign Labor Certification has completed the randomization process to randomly assign all H-2B applications...
Here is the form . Here are the instructions . [And here is my 2017 opinion on the matter.]