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USCIS has provided its first update on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 H-1B cap. FY
2007 H-1B cases have a validity period beginning October 1, 2006, and employers
were permitted to file petitions requesting these new H-1B numbers on April 1st.
This first accounting of H-1B cap cases pending and approved against the FY 2007
H-1B cap was completed on April 3rd, and shows that a total of 85 cases have
been approved, nine applied to the 20,000 available U.S. Master's degree
graduate pool, and 76 for the "standard" pool of 58,200 available numbers. There
are 1,555 pending standard petitions, and 331 pending U.S. Master's degree
petitions.
As a new feature, USCIS will post the estimated number of petitions needed to
reach the cap, based upon projected rates of denials and revocations, while also
posting petitions approved and pending. USCIS currently estimates it will take
61,000 standard petitions and 21,000 U.S. Master's degree petitions to reach the
FY 2007 H-1B caps of 58,200 and 20,000, respectively. Please follow this link to
the USCIS website providing the current cap updates: http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/tempbenefits/cap.htm.
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