H-1B visas top out

The IT community knew that nothing was changing this year for H-1B visas. And so it comes as no surprise that it took just a week for government authorities to announce that the number of visa applications for 2009--85,000--had been taken. Last year, the U.S. department of citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said they had given out all of the applications on April 1, the day that the 2008 applications became available. This year, USCIS didn't say, but we can assume they went very, very quickly. This is an issue that many people have opinions on, and we'd like to hear yours in the comments.

For more on this year's H-1B visa sprint:
- See this PCWorld article [1]
- Also see this InfoWorld article [2]