hello login, i have to ask my friend for his email. but what i know is, his OPT is about to expire and this is the reason why he hired a lawyer and did premium processing. total expenses was about $2500. he paid all by himself. if you have plenty of time to process your H1b, then premium processing is not necessary. if you have already got your offer letter, then you can go to lawyer and get it done. it will just take you few hours to do that.