USCIS has informed the public that it will begin premium processing for
H-1B petitions subject to the annual fiscal year 2015 cap on April 28,
2014. This includes H-1B petitions seeking an exemption from the annual
cap for individuals with a U.S. master’s degree or higher.
On April 7, USCIS announced that it had received enough H-1B petition
submissions to reach the annual cap of 65,000 general category
submissions and 20,000 advanced degree exemption submissions. All
filings received by USCIS by April 7 were accepted.
