Temporary Final Rule: Supplemental H-2B Visa Allocation FY 2024
November 20, 2023
A joint temporary final rule was announced by The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) together with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to increase the number of H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2024. This rule makes available an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2024. These supplemental H-2B visas are for U.S. employers seeking to petition for additional workers at certain periods of the fiscal year before Sept. 16, 2024.
The supplemental H-2B visa allocation consists of roughly 44,700 visas available to returning workers who received an H-2B visa or were otherwise granted H-2B status during one of the last three fiscal years. The remaining 20,000 visas are reserved for nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, and now Colombia, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, regardless of whether they are returning workers.
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