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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released updated H-1B visa numbers for Financial Year (FY) 2011: 20,800 H-1B regular cap petitions and 8,700 H-1B Master’s Exemption petitions have been filed as of May 28, 2010. As discussed previously, initial filing numbers were impressive, with 19,000 petitions submitted in the first week. Since then, however, per week filings have decreased in volume.
65,000 H-1B regular cap visas and 20,000 H-1B Master’s Exemption visas are available for FY 2011.