Updated Numbers Released for Fiscal Year 2011 H-1B Visas
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that, as of April 22, 2010, it has received 16,025 H-1B Regular Cap and 6,739 H-1B Master’s Exemption petitions for Fiscal Year 2011 (October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011). Petition filing slowed after an active first week in which over 19,000 petitions were submitted. In weeks two and three, combined, only 2,525 Regular Cap and 1,139 Master’s Exemption petitions were filed.