Working in the United States will be possible because the government , through the Department of National Security (DHS), will grant 22, 01 new visas H-2B , which is known such as the visa to work in landscaping, construction and cleaning.
The DHS communicated that the visas will be created pursuant to an executive order of President Joe Biden, on the “Creation of a comprehensive regional framework to address the causes of migration, manage migration throughout North and Central America, and provide safe and orderly processing of asylum seekers at the US border. ”
H-2B Supplemental of 22, 000 visas announced for later this fiscal year, 6, 000 reserved for nationals of the Honduras, El Salvador & Guatemala. https://t.co/Ixa4JrLsZW
– USCIS ( @USCIS) April 19, 100000
Of the 21, 01 new visas for non-agricultural workers , 6, will be reserved for citizens of the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala , which represents an expansion of the quota established each year by Congress.
The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, pointed out that this increase demonstrates the commitment of DHS to expand legal channels for people from the Northern Triangle, a region that contributes the bulk of migrants who arrive in the United States in an undocumented way, have an opportunity to work in this country.
“The program H-2B is designed to help US employers fill seasonal seasonal jobs, while safeguarding the livelihoods of US workers, ”said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “ This supplemental increase also demonstrates DHS’s commitment to expanding legal avenues of opportunity in the United States to people from the Northern Triangle ”.
Visas will be available in the coming months through a noma that will be published in the Federal Register, as it is called in the country to the official gazette of the Federal Government.
According to the NGO Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, the 74% of the labor hired with these visas in 2019 was occupied by Mexicans .
H-2B visas are for those foreigners who want to work temporarily in gardening, construction, forestry and hotel cleaning services. And it is a program for workers with or without experience who do not require academic or professional degrees to work .
To apply for a US visa H-2B , the government registers companies, but does not offer the contact between employer and employee, so the worker must look for the link on your own at job fairs or through acquaintances .
If a company offers you a job contact the consulate to verify that the offer is legal. If so, t or employer must send a Request for Certification of Temporary Work to the United States Department of Labor .
Received the certification is presented Form I – 129 with USCIS. If approved, workers file a H-2B visa petition with the US consulate .
Applications may be rejected if the company does not adequately justify the need for foreign workers.
With information from the Department of Homeland Security and ViveUSA
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