Yesterday, USCIS provided updated numbers of H-1B visa masters’ cap visa petitions they received during early April. As of April 18, 2007, USCIS has received roughly 18,000 H-1B petitions for foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. institutions. 20,000 petitions from these candidates, according to legislation passed by Congress, are exempt from the H-1B visa cap, which means there are still about 2,000 H-1B advanced degree petitions still available for Fiscal Year 2008. However, please note that these additional 2,000 available petitions may be gone by the end of the week.