Washington, United States.
The United States announced this on Tuesday 22,000 new visas for non-agricultural workers, inclusive 6000 for people El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, countries that are part of the Northern Triangle of Central America, which implies an extension of the quota that each year by the Congress.
This was reported in a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) noting that this was the cases visa established by executive order of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, son “the creation of a comprehensive regional framework to support the causes of migration, manage migration across North America and Central America and ensure safe and orderly processing of applicants for asylum on the American border “.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, noted, quoted in the note, that this increase demonstrates DHS’s commitment “expand legal channels” so that people from the Northern triangle, region that contributes most of the migrants arriving irregularly in the United States has one opportunity in this country.
Mayorkas recalled that this program from H-2B visas is designed to help employers to fill the positions of temporary job “.
The Visa will ‘be available in the next months “ The information is added via a noma that will be published in the Federal Register, as the official journal of the federal government in the country is called.
Under the amended version of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the US Congress set a limit of 66,000 visas por fiscal year, with a quota of 33,000 for employees working in the first half of the year (from October 1 to March 31) and the 33,000 left plus those not used in the first part of the year available for the second half (from April 1 to September 30).
DHS indicated that it was announced on February 12 that the Citizenship and Immigration from the United States (USCIS) enough requests to meet tope H-2B scheduled for the second half of the financial year.
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The H-2B program “allows employers or agents from job Americans who are sure legal requirements specifically bring foreigners to USA to fill temporarily unrelated jobss with the Agriculture”, the USCIS explained on their website.
According to the NGO Centro de los Rights of migrants, Mexican workers make up the majority of the participants in the program H-2B, with about 74% of the workforce hired with these visas in 2019.
That same year, 90% of the workers were from male and only 10% women. EFE