The Department of Homeland Security has added the Philippines again to the list of countries eligible to participate in the H-2B program.<\/p>\n
In a statement today, it said that DHS, in consultation with the Department of State, announced the list of countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B visa programs in 2021. The notice listing the eligible countries will be published in the Federal Register<\/em> on Jan. 13, 2021.<\/p>\n For 2021, the acting secretary of homeland security and the secretary of state have agreed to:<\/p>\n * Add the Philippines to the list of countries eligible to participate in the H-2B program;<\/p>\n * No longer designate the Independent State of Samoa and Tonga as eligible countries because they no longer meet the regulatory standards for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs; and<\/p>\n * No longer designate Mongolia as an eligible country for the H-2A visa program because it no longer meets the regulatory standards for that program.<\/p>\n The Philippines was removed from the list of countries eligible to participate in the H-2B program in early 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Homeland Security has added the Philippines again to the list of countries…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":334172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4688],"class_list":["post-336674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-federal-register"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}