Friend wants to work on my Horsefarm to complex?

[Bukaroo 0]

Hello

I am registered blind in the US and I do require help on my horsefarm with the horses. I have only a small horse farm in which also runs on a self sufficient basis.

My friend a UK citrizen would like to come and work voluntarily for me, he is retired and would have his own monies coming in form of an UK Pension and also would have health insurance in place before entering the US. He would live with me and my wife on the property.

The question is I do not know which visa would be the best for him as he stated that he would like to voluntary help me out for a few years on my horsefarm. Due to me being blind I do need the help with my horses which my wife used to do but due to her health she no longer able.

Could you please let me know which is the best way for him to be able to do so?

Thank you

[canadian_wife 1,826]

Of course you need help. However one burning question which is necessary for you to answer, why can't you hire a US citizen? And this must be answered in terms of skills. Obviously you prefer someone you know and trust, however, USCIS does not care about your preferences. they care that a foreigner is coming to take a job that an American citizen can do.

Good luck

[Bukaroo 0]

Of course you need help. However one burning question which is necessary for you to answer, why can't you hire a US citizen? And this must be answered in terms of skills. Obviously you prefer someone you know and trust, however, USCIS does not care about your preferences. they care that a foreigner is coming to take a job that an American citizen can do.

Good luck

Thank you for your answer but I had several US citizen as workers on my farm and had bad experiences with them. We are just thinking of someone who I trust and won't let me down or steal from me.

[Boiler 45,908]

Work visas are handled by Lawyers, I am thinking of a H2a assuming it is temporary/seasonal.

[HFM181818 750]

To get an H2B, you have to prove that NO American citizen is available to do the job...there is no such visa as a 'volunteer' visa except for very isolated religious reasons (often abused)...it would be illegal to use ESTA, a B2 or a B1 visa for this purpose. The 'voluntary' nature matters not when what the arriving alien will be doing is considered work.

H2A is an agricultural worker visa; H2B is the seasonal worker visa (unskilled labor)

Edited September 27, 2015 by HFM181818

[Boiler 45,908]

To get an H2B, you have to prove that NO American citizen is available to do the job...there is no such visa as a 'volunteer' visa except for very isolated religious reasons (often abused)...it would be illegal to use ESTA, a B2 or a B1 visa for this purpose. The 'voluntary' nature matters not when what the arriving alien will be doing is considered work.

H2A is an agricultural worker visa; H2B is the seasonal worker visa (unskilled labor)

In theory that may be the case, certainly not in practice otherwise no H2a's would ever be issued.

Why you need a lawyer who knows how to craft the application.

[HFM181818 750]

there is no limit to the H2A visa class....however, relatively few of them are issued each year because the agricultural owners do NOT want to have to pay their workers decently, do not want to give up on charging those same workers for lunch or tools (much like the coal companies of yesteryear) and not being willing to adhere to the regulations that govern H2A visas....so, they first claim they cannot find workers, so then they hire illegals, then claim that the paperwork to do an H2A is too complicated...