USCIS UPDATES 2012 H-1B COUNT ON 4/22/2011: AT 8,000

USCIS just released another cap update for FY2012 - as of April 22, 2011, they receipted 8,000 H-1B petitions subject to the regular cap plus 5,900 petitions subject to the advanced degree cap. It looks like 900 H-1B petitions were filed this week based on last week's report, still very low usage but we all know what the economy is like.