Immigration and mobility is a short BASK list with one heavily tested number attached to it. Know the list, and know the H-2B fiscal-year split.
What the BASK puts here
Under immigration and mobility the key concepts are laws, visa processes and requirements, and sponsorship expenses. That is the whole list, and "who pays the filing and legal costs" sits inside it.
Items that look adjacent but belong elsewhere:
- Disaster recovery plans — Risk Management business continuity.
- Supply chain management — a CSR activity supporting sustainability.
- Annual summary posting — an OSHA recordkeeping duty.
The H-2B half-year allocation
The H-2B cap is split into two halves of the federal fiscal year, not the calendar year.
- The first 33,000 go to workers who begin employment October 1 through March 31.
- The remaining 33,000 cover April 1 through September 30.
- The trap is January 1 to June 30 or July 1 to December 31. Those are calendar-year halves, and USCIS does not use them.
The keyed reasoning in scenarios
When recruiters are answering sponsorship-cost questions inconsistently because no policy exists, the first action is to establish a policy covering visa processes, requirements and sponsorship expenses. Letting each hiring manager set terms entrenches the inconsistency. Requiring candidates to fund their own petitions sets terms without regard to the legal requirements. Suspending foreign national hiring stops the work instead of building the capability.
Carry this in: the fix in this area is a policy that names the law, the process and who pays.