Content Tagged: "H-2B visas"

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will increase certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees effective April 1, 2024. Petitions related to the H-2B visa program are included among the fee increases.

Kyle Richardson, operations manager at L & A Tent Rentals, Trenton, N.J., discusses how his company secures workers through the H-2B program and offers advice on navigating the process.

In 2022’s year-end wrap-up, we wrote about the then-recent midterm elections and how they would bode for the 118th session of Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of Labor (DOL), said that it expects to make an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas available for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has said it has reached the congressionally-mandated cap on H-2B visas for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2024.

The H-2B visa coalition learned that on Sept. 27, language it had been pursuing through the U.S. House's appropriations committee regarding Returning Worker Exemption was stripped out of the bill’s language. The coalition also has submitted a letter to Congressional leaders stressing the essential nature of the H-2B program and the risk of significant harm to the country if the government shuts down. 

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that it says is aimed at strengthening protections and providing greater flexibility for temporary workers through H-2 programs, including workers falling under the H-2B visa program.

In March 2023, nearly 60 members of the American Rental Association (ARA) gathered in Washington, D.C., for the association’s National Legislative Caucus.