Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) recently issued the following announcement.
In a joint release published last week, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor announced the availability of an additional 35,000 H-2B visas on or after April 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2022. As noted in the official press release, “the supplemental H-2B visa allocation consists of 23,500 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 11,500 visas, which are exempt from the returning worker requirement, are reserved for nationals of Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.”
Original source can be found here.