In this video we'll talk about the visa that is available for housekeepers, construction
worker, landscapers to come in the United States and work here on a seasonal basis.
Most people don't realize that housekeepers, landscapers, construction workers and other
seasonal type of labor can come to the United States and work here for a limited period,
for a season. This visa is called the H-2B. The H-2B visa is a very, in my mind is kind
of an unknown visa at the most, because first of all it's, it's quite difficult to get it
and there is a quota limited quota of 66,000 visas per year divided into two seasons. Each
season has 33,000 visas available. Now what is this H-2B visa all about? The H-2B visa
was created to allow unskilled workers or some workers that are specifically coming
here for a seasonal or a one time occurrence type of work. For example, if you are a software
engineer or if you're a lawyer or an architect or you know a job that requires a bachelor's
degree, most of these people come here and work on the H-1B visa, which is designed just
for that. But what if you don't have this education and you have an employer that needs
people for a resort, fill their housekeeper needs or if you're a landscaping company and
you and you have a shortage of people to help you or if your construction, a construction
company and you need more laborers for six months, 10 months, then H-2B is the perfect
visa for that. And the reason is because the employer would have to first of all demonstrate
to the government that there is actually a shortage, a seasonal need. The way we do it
is by filing a particular application with the Labor Department demonstrating that they
try to hire people, they couldn't find them and therefore they need those particular people
for this particular season. For example, we've done a lot of H-2B visas for construction
companies, and housekeeping jobs where we defined the need for the hotel, for the resort,
for the construction company, that they have a shortage between, let's say, March and September
and during the stand we show how many people they usually hiring, how many people are off
season, what is the need for the job, all these things we demonstrated in the package.
We sent it to the Labor Department. We're getting the particular wage for those people.
And the nice thing about the H-2B is you can group a number of employees in one petition.
If you need 20 or 30 of them, you can file all of them at the same time. Once you demonstrate
that shortage, then you get a labor certification for that particular position. And then you
can go ahead and file the H-2B petition with the USCIS. Once the petition is approved,
then the workers would go ahead and get their visas in their home country. Now, depending
on where they're from, if you file an H-2B application for different countries, those
employees will go to different consulates in the different countries. Now it is important
to understand that you can file for a season that starts in April and the season starts
in October and therefore you have to plan your recruitment and the immigration filing
in advance. But if you do it correctly, you should be able to get your labor certification
done on time and then filed those H-2B visas in a blanket, multiple employees in one petition
to get them on time for April or October. Recently the Trump administration announced
that they will be adding more visas more than the 66,000 available, normally to increase
the pool of visas available because they know that there's enough shortage and they want
to help those employers. So we hope we welcome this initiative and let's see when and if
this is going to become a reality. But once again, H-2B is an amazing visa for seasonal
workers. And if you have any specific questions about this visa, post them in the comments
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and we'll see you in our next video.