Staff \u2014 March 31, 2015<\/p>\n
Photo: iStock | Dwight Nadig<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security has announced that the cap for H-2B hiring has been reached for the first half of 2015. If you submitted a petition after January 26\u2014 and it requested an employment start date prior to April 1\u2014it\u2019ll be rejected. The limit for the first half of the year was 33,000; a total of 66,000 H-2B workers has been approved for Fiscal Year 2015.<\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/working-united-states\/temporary-workers\/cap-count-h-2b-nonimmigrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff \u2014 March 31, 2015 Photo: iStock | Dwight Nadig The Department of Homeland Security has announced that the cap for H-2B hiring has been reached for the first half of 2015. If you submitted a petition after January 26\u2014 and it requested an employment start date prior to April 1\u2014it\u2019ll be rejected. The limit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nursery","tag-h-2b-cap"],"yoast_head":"\n