USCIS Reaches Cap for Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visas for FY2021
USCIS announced that it has reached the cap for the additional 16,000 H-2B visas made available for returning workers only. USCIS continues to accept petitions for H-2B workers for the additional 6,000 visas allotted for nationals of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador until July 8, 2021. USCIS will reject and return any cap-subject petitions for H-2B returning workers (not including those filed under the Northern Triangle allotment) received after June 1, together with any accompanying filing fees.
Note, on June 7, 2021, USCIS issued a message stating that:
“USCIS strongly encourages qualified U.S. employers to consider this supplemental H-2B allocation reserved for nationals of the Northern Triangle in filling positions for which they cannot find qualified and available U.S. workers. If fewer than 6,000 beneficiaries are requested toward the visas set aside for nationals of the Northern Triangle countries, we will announce on our website by July 23, that the unused Northern Triangle country visas will be made available to employers regardless of the beneficiary’s country of nationality, subject to the returning worker requirement.”