The number of work visas will double

According to an official statement from the Department of Homeland Security, the number of temporary work visas issued to immigrants will be doubled by the end of this year. The information was later confirmed by Bloomberg. More visas will be accepted for non-agricultural industries, with tourism, seafood processing and landscaping, among others, mentioned in the statement. landscaping of territories. It is worth saying that the United States issues 66 thousand H-2B visas annually, and this year they plan to issue a little less than 65 thousand additionally. Immigrants from different countries will work on these visas, but the leaders will be employees of Central American origin - immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Russian citizens should not give up: the United States has repeatedly discussed the possibility of hiring specialists from Russia in order to weaken the Russian information technology industry and help its own economy. 

The statement also mentions that the visas are being introduced in order to solve a temporary problem that has arisen in the mentioned industries.