Laborer

Work description

This letter is submitted to support the labor certification application and I-129 petition of Holiday Lighting of West County on behalf of multiple (35) aliens. Our company is engaged in the holiday decor business in the Franklin County, Missouri area. Our services include installation and removal of holiday dcor and lighting. The dates during which most of our business activity occurs, and during which we have the most need for temporary seasonal workers is October 1, 2026, to March 15, 2027. Our company is a new business but has plenty of holiday decor business as evidenced by the attached documents. Our company currently requires the services of laborers to perform manual labor associated with holiday dcor installation such as organize and prepare stock of holiday dcor material. Install holiday lighting to houses, buildings, trees and take down and store in the warehouse facility. Load and unload materials and prepare for storage. Lifting required up to 50 lbs. No education or experience required. Transportation is provided to and from area work sites at employers expense from centralized Franklin County pick up location. Our company has a temporary seasonal need for persons with these skills because our busiest seasons are traditionally tied to the holiday season from approximately October 1st to March 15th, during which time we need to substantially supplement the number of workers for our labor force for these positions. Our temporary seasonal holiday dcor installation workers are only needed during the holiday seasons (for putting up and taking down lights before and after the holidays) and do not become a part of our permanent labor force. We need our workers on October 1st, so that they are prepared to begin as soon as our work increases for the holiday season. We feel certain that our sudden and substantial need for seasonal workers, as described above, clearly qualified us as a seasonal H-2B business. Our company has tried to recruit U.S. workers to fill these positions without success. We have found the local labor market to be completely inadequate and unable to meet our need for these peak load workers during our busiest seasons. Most of our work is done on a year to year basis, and the number of temporary workers can only be estimated about a year or so in advance. Based on present business, we do have a temporary seasonal need for the 35 H-2B workers we are asking for in 2026/2027, but cannot anticipate, at this time, that we will need H-2B workers in 2027/2028 due to fluctuations in the economy. We are not hiring a recruiter to help us recruit H2B workers this year since all of our new H2B workers are being recruited from our existing workforce so there is no contract with a recruiter attached. These foreign H2B workers whom we desire to hire will possess the requisite abilities for this position. Our company has never hired persons for these positions with less ability than these foreign H2B workers possess. Therefore, our company wishes to employ them for a temporary period as Laborer. This period will be required in order for them to complete the seasonal job responsibilities required of them. After this assignment, they will return to their country of origin to continue their present occupation. If for any reason any of these workers need to return back to their country of origin on or before March 15, 2027, our company will pay the costs of their transportation and subsistence to return to their country of origin.