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Thanksgiving International; H2B Visa Cap Numbers
November 26, 2008
Volume 6, Number 37
Dear Friends,
As people from around the world come to the United States to live and work, they often adopt many of our – formerly foreign – customs. Like tomorrow’s celebration of Thanksgiving. While, back in Algeria or Albania for example, one would never consider eating a turkey with cranberry sauce, once in the United States, people from everywhere can be found at a Safeway grocery store purchasing “Stove Top Stuffing,” gravy and pumpkin pies – items that can’t even be found back “at home.” I believe it is safe to say that most of these newcomers learn to enjoy our traditional meal on Thanksgiving day – even if they can’t quite understand the other Thanksgiving tradition that us Americans can’t live without: 6 hours of football on television.
H2B Visa Cap Updates
This week the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service updated their cap numbers for the H visa, and as of, November 21, there were already 4,663 H-2B applicants approved with another 5,602 pending of the 33,000 available for the second half of the 2009 fiscal year which does not begin until April 1 of 2009. (The J Visa which we use, does not have a formal numerical cap nor does it require the job to be seasonal – it is always available.)
We are now accepting applications for a variety of hospitality-related jobs located in the New York area and the Mid-West for the spring of 2009.
Hope you enjoy your turkey this week, with or without the football,