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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has released updated H-1B visa numbers for Financial Year (FY) 2011: 53,900 H-1B regular cap petitions and 19,700 H-1B Master’s Exemption petitions were filed as of December 17, 2010. Limitations for FY 2011 are 65,000 H-1B regular cap visas and 20,000 H-1B Master’s Exemption visas. In the past three months, 15,600 regular cap and 5,700 Master’s Exemptions petitions were filed.