Pacific has utilized the H2B Visa Program for over a decade to help staff a legal and stable seasonal workforce. This has helped us provide a stable service to our clients. During 2017, we applied for and received 55 H2B. We will apply again for 2018 but the program limits the total visas to 66,000. This visa limit has never increased since the H2B visa program was started 27 years ago in 1990. In 2005, a "Returning Worker Exemption" was put into place. Under the returning worker exemption, any person who was employed as an H-2B worker during the past three fiscal years may return as an H-2B worker without being counted against the annual cap of 66,000. Returning worker exemption has to be renewed annually and in the anti-immigrant environment last fall, it did not. The goal of the H2B Coalition Fly-in was to lobby to have the returning worker exemption reinstated for 2018 and beyond. There are 2 bills in congress currently to do so and they are House-bill 4207 and Senate-bill 792 . Please take 2 minutes and write congress with your support. Click Here

 

It is a controversial subject with the current immigration debate, however, we stand firm in our support of respect and honor of our immigrant workforce. America is country built by immigrants and while we need to improve our immigration laws, the fear and hatred off immigrants is unfortunate and wrong. Please click on the link to read H2B Myth vs Fact . Also click on the link to learn about the  Rigorous H2B Application Process .