The Biden administration announced that it will offer 22,000 extra seasonal guest worker visas to employers “likely to suffer irreparable harm” to their businesses without such employees, with 6,000 visas reserved for people from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, in a bid to “expand lawful pathways for opportunity in the United States.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release on April 20 that it’s taking the action in light of increased labor demand and “to ensure that American businesses are equipped with the resources needed to recover successfully and contribute to the economic health of local communities.”
