The Spruce Point Inn is one of many Maine tourist businesses that employ foreign workers on H2B visas.
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine — On April 1, the Spruce Point Inn was quiet, and a bit chilly. After being closed for the winter, as usual, it will take a few weeks, and a lot of work, to have the popular 81-room facility gleaming and ready for visitors by mid-May.
But general manager Harper Sibley said they should have more help with that work than they did last year.
The Spruce Point Inn is one of many Maine tourist businesses that employ foreign workers on H2B visas. Prior to the pandemic, Sibley said their 120-person staff was evenly divided between Maine workers and visa workers.
On Thursday, responding to requests from Maine and other states, the federal…
