11 More H-2B Contries

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano designated 11 new countries as eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant visa programs, which allow U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary or seasonal jobs for which U.S. workers are not available.

The 11 newly designated countries—Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia and Uruguay—join 28 countries previously designated as eligible to participate in these programs.

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H2B Work Visa Countries

Which countries can H-2B workers come from? Any country? NO.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security - DHS, through the office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - USCIS, will only allow nationals from the following countries to receive H-2B visas in 2010:

Argentina
Australia
Belize
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Costa Rica
Croatia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Honduras
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Jamaica
Japan
Lithuania
Mexico
Moldova
The Netherlands
Nicaragua
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uruguay

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