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…
H-2B cap met. What are your options?
FY23 H-2B SECOND HALF CAP MET: On March 2nd, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the FY23 statutory second half H-2B visa cap has been met. February 27th was…
Northern Central America Initiative Trip Report
On October 12th, DHS announced its intent to release an additional 20,000 H-2B visas specifically to the Northern Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, as well as…
SEA 2023 Annual Meeting and Auction Recap
The 2023 SEA Annual Meeting was a tremendous success. Along with record attendance, the feedback on the program was universally positive. We were honored to have H-2B program champion Congressman…
SEA Northern Triangle Initiative Showcase
At the end of this month, SEA will be hosting an educational and informational event in Guatemala and El Salvador to showcase the Northern Triangle Initiative to our membership. We…