President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that an increase in the number of temporary workers that would be allowed to work in the United States this year, while the economy is recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Department of National Security (DHS for English Sails) says that the United States approves 22,000 additional H2-B visas for stationary work, in addition to the annual limit of 66,000 established by Congress. Given the increase in demand on the part of employers, it is the number of people who solicit performance by example is found at the most important point since surging the COVID-19 broth.
The H2-B visa program has a bipartisan support in Congress and companies throughout the country. It is used to cover waste traumas in areas such as landscaping, construction, hotels and restaurants, as well as carnation plantations and marshes and attraction parks.
Last year, President Donald Trump authorized 35,000 additional H-2B visas for the annual limit, but three months later he passed the program with other foreign workers’ programs, including a large-scale executive order. Biden day that the order expires.
Employers need to be able to overcome an “irreparable loss” if they do not receive extras from the program’s brand.
Announcing the annual increase this year, DHS said it would reserve 6,000 visas for people in the North American Central Triangle: Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The Central Americans, who fight against the pandemic, the sequels of the hurricanes and problems of long data, constitute an important part of the growing number of migrants that could enter the United States to the front of Mexico.
The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, says that the visa increase reflects Biden’s governing body’s objective of “expanding the legal visas for opportunities in the United States” for the people of the North Triangle.