The Department of Homeland Security has published lists of countries whose nationals will be eligible for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs in the upcoming year.
Key Points:
- The lists are mostly unchanged from last year, with one addition, Bolivia, to both lists.
- All nationals who were eligible for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs last year will remain eligible this year.
- Nationals of Mongolia and the Philippines will remain eligible for the H-2B visa program but not the H-2A program. Nationals of Paraguay will remain eligible for the H-2A program but not the H-2B program.
- Nationals of countries that are not on the lists may be eligible for H-2A or H-2B visas on a case-by-case basis if U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services makes a determination that issuing a visa would be in the national interest.
Additional Information: The countries whose nationals are eligible for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs are as follows.
Andorra | The Kingdom of Eswatini | Madagascar | Saint Lucia |
Argentina | Fiji | Malta | San Marino |
Australia | Finland | Mauritius | Serbia |
Austria | France | Mexico | Singapore |
Barbados | Germany | Monaco | Slovakia |
Belgium | Greece | Mongolia* | Slovenia |
Bolivia | Grenada | Montenegro | Solomon Islands |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Guatemala | Mozambique | South Africa |
Brazil | Haiti | Nauru | South Korea |
Brunei | Honduras | The Netherlands | Spain |
Bulgaria | Hungary | New Zealand | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
Canada | Iceland | Nicaragua | Sweden |
Chile | Ireland | North Macedonia | Switzerland |
Colombia | Israel | Norway | Taiwan*** |
Costa Rica | Italy | Panama | Thailand |
Croatia | Jamaica | Papua New Guinea | Timor-Leste |
Republic of Cyprus | Japan | Paraguay** | Turkey |
Czech Republic | Kiribati | Peru | Tuvalu |
Denmark | Latvia | The Philippines* | Ukraine |
Dominican Republic | Liechtenstein | Poland | United Kingdom |
Ecuador | Lithuania | Portugal | Uruguay |
El Salvador | Luxembourg | Romania | Vanuatu |
Estonia |
*Mongolia and the Philippines are eligible to participate in the H-2B program but are not eligible to participate in the H-2A program.
**Paraguay is eligible to participate in the H-2A program but is not eligible to participate in the H-2B program.