Guestworker Programs Remain Open to Countries with High Overstay Rates
By Jessica M. Vaughan and Preston Huennekens on January 25, 2019
Our colleague David North has reported the good news that three countries have been booted from the annual list of countries whose citizens are eligible to participate in the H-2 guestworker visa programs, due to high overstay rates. But the list still includes many other countries with high rates of non-compliance and overstays that should disqualify them, or at least result in some kind of probationary status or require enhanced screening. The number of participating countries now stands at 80, which is slightly down from the peak of 85 in 2017, but still much higher than 2008, when only 28 countries were eligible (see Figure 1).
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