USCIS UPDATES 2012 H-1B COUNT ON 7/7/2011: AT 19,000

USCIS just issued another H-1B visa cap update. As of July 7, 2011, they have received approximately 19,000 H-1B petitions subject to the FY2012 regular cap plus approximately 12,200 petitions subject to the advanced degree cap.
This was a slower week for H-1B receipting (probably due to the July 4th holiday), only 600 petitions under the regular cap were receipted (down from 1,000 the week before).