On April 29, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received enough petitions to reach the second allocation of the supplemental FY 2026 H-2B visa cap.
This announcement applies to returning H-2B workers under the current filing window. Employers had until April 21 to submit petitions under this allocation.
Those looking to sponsor H-2B employees must now wait until May 1 to file Form I-129. Petitions filed after this date are not subject to the returning worker requirement.
New to the H-2B seasonal cap? Our coverage of the first filing window’s closure breaks it down.
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Caryl Espinoza Jaen is a Nicaraguan-born staff writer for Manifest Law. As a writer, he strives to cover complex topics like immigration policy with clarity, accuracy, and precision.
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