The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor recently announced the availability of 20,000 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the first half of fiscal year 2022.
The visas are for employers who are facing “irreparable harm without additional workers” and are seeking to employ workers before March 31.
This marks the first time the federal agencies are making additional H-2B visas available in the first half of the fiscal year.
A total of 13,500 visas are available to returning workers who received an H-2B visa during one of the last three fiscal years. The remainder are reserved for nationals of Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
