In keeping with the challenges it currently faces on the immigration issue, the United States government announced on Thursday that it will issue some 64,716 additional visas for the temporary worker program in the country.
“The Department of Homeland Security is moving at unprecedented speed to meet the needs of American businesses,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.
The new visa numbers for 2023 join the 66,000 temporary H-2B visas that are available annually for non-agricultural workers.
However, the DHS, in coordination with the Department of Labor, have established rules that include employers exhausting all possibilities in the internal labor market – as required by the visa program – while also supervising that foreign workers such as hired are not victims of exploitation.
The current quota of H-2B visas includes an allocation of 20,000 visas for workers from Haiti and the countries of the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America, that is, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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