As of December 31, 2010, USCIS had accepted 57,300 cap-eligible petitions which have either been approved or are still pending.

The H-1B cap is 65,000 H-1B numbers. Up to 6,800 visas can be set aside for applicants from Chile and Singapore. The USCIS Ombudsman has advised AILA Liaison that 6,358 H-1B numbers that were unused last year have been added to this year’s pool. Therefore, the total number of H-1Bs available for this year is 64,500. Since USCIS has accepted 57,300 cap-eligible petitions, only approximately 7,000 visa numbers were available as of the end of 2010.