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Appropriations committee adopts bipartisan en bloc amendment to ease seasonal worker visas, expand H‑2A flexibility and add circuses/carnival workers to P visas
Summary
A broad bipartisan en bloc amendment combining several visas fixes — including expanding H‑2B certainty for certified employers, clarifying H‑2A seasonality and allowing certain traveling entertainment workers to use P visas — was adopted during the Homeland Security markup.
A bipartisan en bloc amendment combining revisions to H‑2B, H‑2A and P‑visa rules won approval in the Appropriations Subcommittee markup, offering seasonal employers and agricultural producers more certainty about temporary foreign labor.
Core elements: The amendment — crafted by Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Dan Newhouse, Rep. Wiley and others and offered by Rep. Harris — included a provision to exempt H‑2B workers previously used by certified employers from the annual numerical cap (for employers that had consistent usage in the prior five years),…
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