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The quota on United States class H-1B work visas for the fiscal year 2005 has already been one-quarter filled.
TheAmerican Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has just provided anupdate on the H-1B cap for the 2005 fiscal year (FY 2005) on 11 Juneduring the AILA annual conference.
As of the end of May2004, already 16,100 (out of the quota of 65,000) H-1B applicationshave been approved against next year's cap.
To remind ourclients, fiscal year 2005 only begins 1 October 2004. From 1 April 2004US employers could make H-1B applications against the following year'squota. This high number of applications shows that the 25% of allavailable H-1B visas for next year have been issued.
