Kaniva News reports the H-2A and H-2B visa programmes allow employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary agricultural and non-agricultural jobs, respectively.
Tonga has already lost the opportunity to participate in the January recruitment for New Zealand’s RSE scheme.
The New Zealand government wanted all RSE workers repatriated before Tonga could be allocated a new share of the 2000 employees who were expected to arrive in New Zealand this month.
Tonga was the only Pacific nation with RSE workers left in New Zealand.
