Jacqueline Bednarz, Chief of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Nonimmigrant Branch, has reported a significant decrease in the number of H-1B visas approved for the first half of the 1995 fiscal year compared with the same figures for last year. This is significant since the law limits the number of H-1B visas which may be issued in one fiscal year to 65,000. For the first half of the fiscal year, 27,168 H-1B nonimmigrant worker petitions were approved. Unless there is a major upsurge in H-1B applications, 1995 will again be a year where eligible H-1B applicants are not turned away because of the cap. The cap of 65,000, since its enactment in 1990, has never been hit.