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While other local employers hire
international students on J-1 visas, that's
not attractive to Whitlow because those
students return home at the start of her
busy autumn season.
e H2-Bs "come to us with
experience, and so they are here for
six months — essentially the whole
season," she says. Once in this country,
they can apply for extensions for up to
three years, doing six rotations of six
months at a time.
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