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US bans Filipinos for one year from non-immigrant temporary worker prog

Manila, Jan 22 (UNI) The United States has issued a one-year ban on Filipinos from its non-immigrant visa programmes citing “high overstay rates” and the “threat of human trafficking.”
In a notice issued recently, the US Secretary of Homeland Security’s (DHS) office identified the Philippines as among three countries whose citizens are not in the meantime eligible for being issued with temporary working visas. The other two are the Dominican Republic and Ethiopia, Gulf News reported.
“The Philippines has a high H-2B overstay rate. In FY (Fiscal Year) 2017, DHS estimated that nearly 40 per cent of H-2B visa holders from the Philippines overstayed their period of authorised stay,” the DHS said.
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