On April 9, 2010, USCIS announced that in the first week of accepting cap-subject H-1B filings for FY 2011, only 13,500 petitions had been received against the 65,000 regular cap and only 5,600 against the 20,000 master’s cap.
New H-1B visas are generally limited to 65,000 per fiscal year, with an extra 20,000 available to