Seasonal and Short-term Jobs
The USA does present visas for unskilled labor to enter the nation for seasonal and momentary jobs in sure farming and non-agricultural jobs. The U.S. employer begins the method for acquiring a short lived H-2 work visa with a request that they can’t discover the employees wanted contained in the U.S. As soon as accredited by the U.S. authorities, the employer will ship the paperwork to the international nationwide. The corporate does all of the paperwork within the U.S., and the applicant solely goes to the U.S. embassy or consulate as a closing step to course of the visa as soon as the employer sends you these paperwork.
Kinds of Seasonal and Short-term Visas
Seasonal and momentary jobs are divided in two sorts:
- Agricultural (H-2A visa)
- Non-Agricultural (H-2B visa)
The Division of Labor’s Seasonal Jobs web site is a superb place to begin in search of some of these jobs. Agricultural positions might embrace work planting, selecting, greenhouse care, making use of fertilizer, and basic farm upkeep utilizing hand instruments, amongst others. Some agricultural positions are exterior in climate that could possibly be harsh, and will contain lengthy intervals of standing or kneeling. Hold that in thoughts when you have any accidents.
Non-agricultural positions might embrace landscaping and gardening, housekeeping, restaurant work, seafood processing and packing, and dealing in building.
The Seasonal Jobs web site highlights high classes of jobs, particular places (which can be vital if you wish to go someplace you’ve household or mates), classes of seasonal jobs, and even crops if you happen to’re an agricultural employee that desires to choose one thing particular based mostly in your expertise.
An analogous web site to seek out and apply for seasonal and momentary jobs is the H2 Job Board. Much like the DOL’s web site, you possibly can create a profile and apply for jobs in several elements of the USA. You too can join job alerts to obtain notifications on jobs that match your profile.
You could renew an H-2 visa; nonetheless, they’re topic to numerical and nation caps. There are particular visas put aside for employees from the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador). The remainder of the numerical cap goes to all different candidates. In recent times, companies hiring employees underneath these visas have requested numerical increases, which alerts a excessive want for seasonal employees.