washington reflecting the dire straits of the job market and strict regulations imposed by the us congress more than onefourth of the h1b once the most sought after visas is yet to be grabbed according to the latest figure update by us citizenship and immigration services uscis approximately 46700 of the h1b visas in the general category were filled up by september 25 against a congressional mandated figure of 65000 thus more than 18000 h1b visas are still to be filled up even as the financial year began today primarily meant for professionals from computers and information technology sectors the h1b visas have been one of the most sought after visas for foreign professionals in previous years the us citizenship and immigration service uscis have been receiving several times the number of the allocated quota however this is for the first time in several years that thousands of h1b visas are still to be filled up even at the start of the financial year this is unlike the previous years when the entire 65000 visas were grabbed on day one many a times the uscis had to resort to a computerised lottery to determine the successful candidates in fact uscis figures reveal that in the last one month it received just 1600 petitions for h1b visas which officials said reflects the poor job market it is also attributable partly to the congressional provision in the american recovery act which prevents companies receiving stimulus money from the federal government from hiring a foreign national the uscis said it would continue to accept the petitions till the allocated quota is filled up further even though it has received some 20000 h1b petitions in the higheducation category it would continue to receive application in this category too uscis will continue to accept both capsubject petitions and advanced degree petitions until a sufficient number of h1b petitions have been received to reach the statutory limits taking into account the fact that some of these petitions may be denied revoked or withdrawn it said meanwhile uscis underlined that it will deny or revoke all petitions filed by an employer for the same h1b worker if more than one filing is discovered if multiple petitions are discovered whether one or more such petitions are approved uscis will data enter all those duplicative petitions retain all fees and either deny the petitions or if a petition was approved revoke the petition it said