USCIS UPDATES 2012 H-1B COUNT ON 6/15/2011: AT 15,200

USCIS just issued another H-1B cap update. As of June 15, 2011 they have received 15,200 H-1B petitions subject to the regular cap plus 10,200 petitions subject to the master's degree cap. Still low usage but picking up -- the master's degree cap is more than 50% subscribed which actually shows that almost half of the H-1B applicants so far were people with advanced degrees obtained in the U.S. (which are master's or higher). Kudos for our highly educated H-1B workforce.