Around 2,500 H-1B Quota Remains for US Advanced Degree Holders

On July 19, 2006, USCIS announced the current cap count with new data gathered as of July 18. The number of approved and receipted pending petitions has now reached 16,991. Approximately 360 H-1B Advanced Degree petitions have been received but have not yet been data-entered and receipted. In other words, the combined approximate total is 17,351.

Data posted to the USCIS website on July 12 showed that approximately 16,008 petitions had been approved, data-entered, or received but not yet processed as of July 11. Thus, USCIS received approximately 1,343 petitions in the course of 5 business days, with a pace of about 270 applications per day.  

Here are the detailed numbers:

Date	Cap	Received	Uncounted	Total	Remains
07/18/06	20,000	16,991	360	17,351	2,649

(07/24/2006)

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