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ARTICLE · 31 MARCH 2025

H-2B Cap Limit Reached For Second Half Of Fiscal Year 2025

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On March 26, 2025, USCIS announced that as of March 5, 2025, it has received enough petitions to fill the 33,000 H-2B visas available for the second half of fiscal year 2025.

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On March 26, 2025, USCISannouncedthat as of March 5, 2025, it has received enough petitions to fill the 33,000 H-2B visas available for the second half of fiscal year 2025. Cap-subject H-2B petitions requesting employment dates of April 1, 2025 or later will now be rejected by USCIS.

This announcement also confirmed the timeline for Supplemental Cap filings. On March 20, 2025, USCIS began accepting returning worker supplemental cap petitions for start dates of April 1, 2025 through May 14, 2025 (19,000 additional visas). Then on April 21, 2025, USCIS will begin accepting returning worker supplemental cap petitions for start dates of May 15, 2025 through September 30, 2025 (5,000 additional visas). Further, USCIS has also resumed accepting supplemental cap petitions for nationals of the Country-Specific Allocation (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, who are exempt from the returning worker requirement) (12,862 out of 20,000

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