Tony, a maintenance mechanic, receives a job offer via email while reading about 65,000 working visas for temporary workers in the USA. He verifies the authenticity of the visa news and the legitimacy of the recruitment agency mentioned in the email, ultimately discovering it's a scam.
LOOKING at a job offer attached to a news clipping he received via email, Tony had mixed emotions: whether the job offer was as genuine as the news report.Using Google on his mobile, Tony — a maintenance mechanic — typed '65,000 working visas USA.
' He sorted out the search results and picked the official source from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services titled 'Temporary Increase in H-2B Nonimmigrant Visas for FY 2025.'Turning next to the email Tony checked the name of the 'agency' with the list of licensed recruitment agencies with the Department of Migrant Workers . The 'agency' does not show up on the search.Using 'jobsite' as his search parameter with DMW, he found several listings of maintenance mechanics — and the licensed agency with a specific number of job orders.The '65,000 visas for temporary workers needed in the US' is genuine. The email from the 'agency' was not.What to do?He also had been reading up on the immigration developments in the US. The clamor to 'deport millions of illegal aliens on Day 1, and reserve jobs for Americans' only appears to be contradictory — a paradox.Shortage of workers in the US?The US Chamber of Commerce echoes their members' concern that 'companies of every size and industry, across nearly every state ... are facing unprecedented challenges trying to find enough workers to fill open jobs. Right now, the latest data shows that we have 8 million job openings in the US but only 6.8 million unemployed workers.''America has 'a lot of jobs but not enough workers to fill them. If every unemployed person in the country found a job, we would still have millions of open jobs,' Stephanie Ferguson Melhorn, senior director of workforce and international labor policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, confirms.What law provides for temporary workersCurrently, Congress has set the regular H-2B cap at 66,000 per fiscal year, with 33,000 for workers to begin employment in the first half of the fiscal year and 33,000 for workers for the second half from April-Sept. 30.Any unused numbers from the first half of the fiscal year will be available for employers seeking to hire H-2B workers during the second half of the fiscal year. However, unused H-2B from a fiscal year do not carry over into the next,What reality dictatesAdditional visas are needed 'to protect American businesses, not US workers,' DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, since there are more jobs than available, willing and able American applicants.Since 2017, the DHS has been announcing supplemental temporary work visas .How to check legitimate job offers for H-2B visasThe first line of defense against fraudulent job offers is the listing of approved job orders from the Department of Migrant Workers — https://dmw.gov.ph/approved-job-orders — which Tony checked.The listed jobs from licensed recruitment agencies have been verified by labor attaches before being sent to DMW for publication.The USCIS announced on Sept. 18, 2024, that it has 'received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2025. Sept. 18, 2024, was the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B worker petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2025.'The USCIS may have received 'enough petitions for the first half batch' but not all would be approved. Unused numbers would be available for use during the second half of the fiscal year.Tony is hopeful that he could be part of the second batch of the regular 66,000 H-2B workers for 2025 .If not, he would be looking forward to the next supplemental visas in 2026 since the additional visas for temporary workers have been a yearly occurrence.Or the regular 66,000 H-2B visas in 2027.Once in the US on an H-2B visa, Tony will no longer be subject to the cap.Generally, workers in the United States in H-2B status who extend their stay, change employers, or change the terms and conditions of employment will not be subject to the cap.If he proves his worth to an employer, Tony may be eligible to apply for an immigrant visa under the 3rd Employment-based category.Then, his family may join him as immigrants, derivative beneficiaries of workers that the US needs.
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