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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has released updated H-1B visa numbers for Financial Year (FY) 2011: 38,300 H-1B regular cap petitions and 14,000 H-1B Master’s Exemption petitions were filed as of September 17, 2010. Limitations for FY 2011 are 65,000 H-1B regular cap visas and 20,000 H-1B Master’s Exemption visas. Filing numbers were strong initially, with 19,000 petitions filed in the first week, but slowed afterwards, as we noted in April and June.