U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has received a sufficient number of petitions to reach H-2B cap of 33,000 H-2B workers for the first six months of fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007). The H-2B visa program allows U.S. employers to request foreign workers to fill a one-time, peak load, intermittent, or seasonal need for labor when no workers are available in the local job force.
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November 28, 2006 was the “final receipt date” for new H-2B worker petitions requesting employment start dates prior to April 1, 2007. The “final receipt date” is the date on which USCIS determines that it has received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the limit. USCIS says it will apply a computer-generated random selection process to all petitions subject to the cap that were received on November 28, 2006. This process will select the number of petitions needed to meet the cap and all cap-subject petitions not randomly selected will be rejected.
Additional Resources:
U.S. Department of Labor, H-2B Compliance Assistance