On December 2, 2025, a group of organizations calling itself the “H-2B Workforce Coalition” urged Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer to “promptly make available 64,716 supplemental H-2B visas for fiscal year 2026” due to a “dire shortage of seasonal labor.” The coalition said the visas “will provide employers with the ability to better handle their labor challenges, as they will have additional certainty regarding their workforce planning decisions in the coming months.”
The coalition also urged the agencies “to promptly publish a temporary rule implementing the release of these supplemental visas,” and expressed support for the Trump administration’s “efforts to increase access to H-2B visas for foreign nationals from the Northern Triangle countries and Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.”
The coalition represents “small and seasonal businesses” across the United States in industries such as “lodging, landscaping, seafood, restaurants, tourism, equine, forestry, mobile outdoor amusement, golf courses, and others.” The letter says that the coalition’s members “rely on the H-2B visa program to supplement their U.S. workforce during seasonal surge and peak business needs.”
