Washington, United States.
The United States announced on Tuesday 22,000 new visas for non-agricultural workers, among them 6,000 for people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, countries that make up the North Central American Triangle, which means an extension of the quota established each year by the Congress.
This was stated in a statement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English), noting that thes visas will be created in accordance with an executive order of the US President, Joe Biden, sopens the “Creation of a comprehensive regional framework to address the causes of migration, manage migration across North America and Central America and provide secure and orderly processing of applicants for asylum a la American border “.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, note, cited in the note, that this increase demonstrates the HRS’s commitment to “Expand legal avenues” because people from the North Triangle, region that contributes the bulk of migrants arriving in the US irregularly, have a opportunity in this country.
Mayorkas recalled that this program of H-2B visas “It is designed to help employers to cover the sites of temporary work “.
the visas will be “available in the next months “ through a noma that will be published in the Federal Register, as the country is called the official gazette of the federal government, the information added.
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 workers hired in the first half of the year (from 1 October to 31 March) and 33,000 remaining plus those not used in the first part of the year available for the second half (April 1 to September 30).
DHS has indicated that on February 12 it was announced that the Citizenship Service and immigration of the United States (USCIS, in English) had received enough requests to comply with the top H-2B scheduled for the second half of the fiscal year.
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The H-2B program “allows the employers or agents of occupation Americans who meet certain regulatory requirements specific bring foreigners to United States to fill temporarily unrelated jobss with the agriculture “, explained the USCIS on its website.
According to the NGO Center of the Rights of the Migrant, Mexican workers account for the majority of participants in the H-2B program, with about 74% of the workforce contracted with these visas in 2019.
That same year, 90% of the workers were from male and barely 10% women. EFE