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Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the H-2B visa cap was reached for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2025. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor jointly published a temporary final rule on Dec. 2, 2024, increasing the numerical limit (or cap) on H-2B nonimmigrant visas by up to 64,716 additional visas for all of FY 2025. Of the 64,716 supplemental visas, 44,716 are available only for certain returning workers.
The breakdown of the H-2B supplemental visas for spring and summer is as follows:
For the early second half of FY 2025 (April 1 through May 14)
For the late second half of FY 2025 (May 15 through Sept. 30)
For the entirety of FY 2025
More information on the allocation of supplemental visas can be found here.
This alert has been provided by the BAL U.S. Practice Group.
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