The Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States of America has determined, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, that the following countries should no longer be designated as eligible countries because they are not meeting the standards set out in the regulation : Belize, Haiti, and Samoa.

"Haitian nationals applying for H-2A (Temporary Agricultural Workers) and H-2B (Temporary Non-Agricultural Workers) visas present extremely high rates of refusal, and those issued H-2A or H-2B visas have historically demonstrated high levels of fraud and abuse and a high rate of overstaying the terms of their H-2 admission.

Haiti has shown no improvement in these areas, and the Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, that Haiti's inclusion on the 2018 H-2A and H-2B lists is no longer in the U.S. interest," says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

HL/ HaitiLibre