The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of State (DOS), has announced the list of countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant worker visa programs for the next 12 months.

The announcement adds Belize to the list of countries eligible to participate in those programs and does not remove any country previously designated as eligible. (Mongolia and the Philippines are eligible to participate in the H-2B program but not the H-2A program. Paraguay is eligible to participate in the H-2A program but not the H-2B program.)