Urge Biden Administration to Release H-2B Visas Now!
Friday, March 25, 2022
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Posted by: Gregg Robertson
 Washington, D.C. - On March 15, President Biden signed to law the omnibus Federal
appropriations bill that contains language authorizing up to 65,000 supplemental H-2B visas.
The green industry must reach out to the Biden Administration to pressure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) to release the supplemental visas for the second half of the fiscal year.
The landscape industry is facing one of its most critical labor shortages and needs DHS/DOL to authorize the additional supplemental visas for the upcoming season starting April 1st.
In January, the Department of Labor announced that it received 136,555 H-2B visa worker requests for the April 1st second half cap start date. That is more than four times the cap itself (33,000).
U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced on March 1, 2022, that it has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the second half of the FY 2022. Without the supplemental visas, no more H-2B visas can be issued for FY 2022.
The industry must convince DHS/DOL to announce the release of supplemental visas as early as April 1st for the spring-summer season.
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