2025 SEA Fall Strategy Session
The 2025 SEA Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by SEA members Peter Foster and Erika Christie, will be September 9-12, 2025 in beautiful York Harbor, Maine at the Stage Neck…
Trusted Recruiters for Northern Central America
BACKGROUND: On January 20th, President Trump signed an executive order titled Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid. As a result, USAID staff were ordered to halt all current programmatic activities while…
2025 Mar-a-Lago Seasonal Employer PAC Fundraiser
The Seasonal Employer PAC invites you to join us for a cocktail reception and dinner on Thursday, March 13th, 2025, at the historic Mar-a-Lago Club in beautiful Palm Beach, FL.…
What are the differences between the H-1B and H-2B programs?
On Christmas Day Elon Musk ignited a firestorm on X with a post that advocated for the doubling of H-1B visas. This set off a firestorm within the MAGA base.…
With Mass Deportation on the Horizon, America’s H-2B Worker Program Can Fill the Employment Gaps
The incoming Trump administration is inheriting an immigration crisis. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, there have been over 8.7 million encounters at the Southern Border since President…
December 2024 H-2B Fly-In
We will be hosting a D.C. H-2B Fly-In on Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December 3. The current government funding bill expires on December 20. This fly-in is strategically timed…
SEA’s 2025 Labor Forum (January 28-30, 2025)
SEA is excited to announce our inaugural labor forum January 28-30, 2025, in the historic downtown of Las Vegas, NV. For our first time ever, SEA will convene numerous H-2B…
Correcting the Record on NumbersUSA’s Misleading Claims on Harris H-2B Amendment
For over thirty years, America’s H-2B nonimmigrant visa program has permitted employers to hire nonimmigrants on a temporary basis to perform nonagricultural labor or services in the United States. The H-2B program has…
SEA 2024 Strategy Session and Retreat – Bay Harbor, MI
The 2024 SEA Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by SEA board member Sonja Skerbeck and Mackinac Island hotelier Sam Barnwell, will bring together SEA Leadership and the leading H-2B strategists.…
May 22, 2024 H-2B Fly-In
We MUST obtain greater H-2B cap certainty prior to the 2024 election. To this end, we are co-hosting an H-2B Fly-In on May 22nd. It is timed to be shortly…
Mar-a-Lago Seasonal Employer PAC Fundraiser
The Seasonal Employer PAC invites you to join us for a cocktail reception and dinner on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, at the historic Mar-a-Lago Club in beautiful Palm Beach, FL.…
SEA 2024 Northern Central America Showcase
SEA will be cohosting another educational and informational event in Guatemala and El Salvador February 24-29 to showcase the Northern Central American Initiative to our membership. In February of 2023,…
SEA Annual Meeting Recap
Despite cooler than average temperatures, the 2024 SEA Annual Meeting was a success. The feedback from the meeting was excellent. We provided a detailed analysis of processing times, DHS supplemental…
SEA Announces Tremendous Support for H-2B Seasonal Employment Protection Act
Contact: Gray Delany Executive Director, Seasonal Employment Alliance gdelany@sealabor.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2023 Washington D.C. – The Seasonal Employment Alliance (SEA) is pleased to announce the tremendous support…
History of Seasonal Employment Protection Act
Given the pending introduction of the Seasonal Employment Protection Act being led by Senators Graham (R-SC) and Padilla (D-CA), we thought it would be helpful to provide context on how…
2024 SEA Annual Meeting
The 2024 SEA Annual Meeting will be in Longboat Key, FL January 15th-17th, 2024. At this meeting we will discuss the state of short-term and permanent cap relief, DOL processing,…
SEA Fall Strategy Session and Retreat
The SEA Fall Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by SEA Chairman Roger Warren and Kiawah Island Golf Resort, will bring together SEA Leadership and the leading H-2B strategists. This meeting…
SEA Campaign to Address DOL Processing Delays
Due to the unprecedented labor shortage faced by employers in seasonal occupations, demand for the temporary, non-immigrant H-2B guestworker program has increased significantly over the last two years. As a…
SEA Summer Strategy Session and Retreat
The SEA Summer Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by Labor Consultants International, will bring together SEA Leadership and the leading H-2B strategists. At this meeting we will reflect on lessons…
SEA/NALP Fly-In
On June 13th and 14th, SEA, in partnership with the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), will host a fly-in in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the fly-in is to…