USCIS UPDATES 2012 H-1B COUNT ON 7/15/2011: AT 20,500

USCIS just issued another H-1B cap update. As of July 15, 2011 they have received approximately 20,500 petitions subject to the FY2012 regular cap, plus approximately 12,800 H-1B petitions under the advanced degree cap.
It looks like a little over 1,000 petitions were filed during the last week, the pace picking up a bit from the last couple of weeks. We'll have to wait and see...