May 26 (UPI) -- The Department of Homeland Security will provide 15,000 additional H-2B visas to at-risk businesses to bring in low-skilled foreign labor this summer.
The move lifts the number of these H2-B visas for summer work from the cap of 66,000 under statute to 81,000, the Wall Street Journal reported. It is made possible by Congress giving Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen the authority to issue up to 69,000 more visas this summer, if necessary, after negotiations in the spring with 81,000 people having applied for the summer H2-B visas in January.