“New H-2B workers” represents the number of new H-2B workers estimated by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which USCIS calculates by adding the number of visas issued for H-2B workers by the State Department to the number of new H-2B workers who were not issued visas because they adjusted to H-2B status while already present inside the United States, and also adding the number of H-2B workers who were admitted to the United States but did not require a visa because they are Canadian nationals. (That information is published in USCIS’s annual Characteristics of H-2B Nonagricultural Temporary Workers reports.) Where there was a discrepancy between the number of visas issued by the State Department as reported in the Characteristics reports and the State Department data published at their Nonimmigrant Visa Statistics page, the State Department’s data were used. “H-2B extensions” represents USCIS petitions for H-2B workers approved for continuing employment (i.e., visa extensions or extensions of status), as reported in the USCIS H-2B Employer Data Hub. The line labeled “New visas issued” represents the number of H-2B visas issued by the State Department in the corresponding fiscal year. The H-2B statutory cap (light blue line) is set in law at 66,000 new H-2B visas per year. The line labeled “H-2B cap + supplemental cap” is the number of H-2B visas authorized in the statutory cap plus the number of supplemental visas authorized by Congress and the executive branch for the corresponding fiscal year. The “Projected” column shows projected totals for fiscal year 2022 based on the statutory and supplemental caps for 2022 and 2021 data on visas issued and petitions approved for continuing employment (see text).