The USCIS has received enough petitions to meet the H-2B cap for the second half of FY2023, and has announced the filing dates for supplemental H-2B visas for the rest of FY2023. The final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B work petitions requesting a start date on or after April 1, 2023, is February 27, 2023. USCIS has published a notice stating that the filing start dates for each of the remaining supplemental visa allocations under the temporary final rule are available on the Temporary Increase in H-2B Nonimmigrant Visas for FY 2023 page. The supplemental H-2B visas are only available to U.S. businesses that are suffering irreparable harm or will suffer impending irreparable harm without the ability to employ all the H-2B workers requested in their petition, and are for U.S. employers seeking to petition for additional workers at certain periods of the fiscal year before Sept. 15, 2023.
Remzi Guvenc Kulen, Esq.
Kulen Law Firm, P.C.
