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USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of Fiscal Year 2025

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USCIS reached the congressionally set cap for H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the first half of fiscal year 2025 on September 18, 2024. Employers seeking to bring in H-2B workers for positions starting before April 1, 2025 can no longer file new cap-subject petitions.
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We have received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2025. Sept. 18 was the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B worker petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2025.

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Temporary non-agricultural (H-2B) workers: returning worker provisions and caps.

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