(Office of the CNMI Congressional Delegate) — U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan said the USCIS decision Tuesday to recognize that Marianas employers of CW-1 workers were being hurt by
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has yet again thrown seasonal businesses a government subsidy in the form of additional cheap foreign workers. As first reported by Michelle Hackman of the Wall Street Journal, Mayorkas will use authority delegated to him by Congress to make 35,000 additional H-2B visas available for low-skilled, non-agricultural workers.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
To help employers dealing with labor shortages due to the limits on H-2B temporary, seasonal visas, a new rule published by the Department of Labor (DOL) increases the H-2B numerical limits. DOL also released a rule that allows H-2B nonimmigrant workers already in the United States to begin work immediately with a new employer after an H-2B petition has been filed if it is supported by a valid Temporary Labor Certification (TLC) received by USCIS even if it is not yet approved.
The new rules do not apply to employees who are continuing to work with the same employer. Those employees are not “portable,” instead they are entitled to keep working for up to an additional 240 days if the extension of stay was timely filed.
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